• RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Linux is super reliable, and unless you use cutting edge distro, it’s pretty rare than anything breaks. Even Fedora is pretty stable from experience

    The only true problems I ever had (and still has), were with Nvidia. And switching distros ain’t saving you. Linux mint? Breaks on suspend. Nobara? Memory leak. Trying newer versions to see if it fixes it? Where’s my bootloader…

    I do understand that laptop RTX 3070 are not common, but still. I just want it to work, and have cuda on it. Is that too much to ask?

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      5 hours ago

      Nobara memory leak? I’ve been using Nobara for a year and a half and have never heard of this.

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        It also happens on fedora but to a lesser extent (somehow). It’s all hidden under the Wayland session process

        It’s always when I’m using my dedicated GPU, so I guess it’s the driver being fucky.

        I have an oddball graphic card so might happen only on it

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      unless you use cutting edge distro

      yea well, “arch btw”. Haven’t had issues really, been running it for years on other systems but my gaming pc with nvidia is the only one with issues… because of course it does. :D

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        10 hours ago

        Of course. Mileage may vary. On some systems it may always work, on others it’s “what’s broken this week”.

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        Never had an issue with Nvidia. But then I’m using an Ubuntu distro because I just want my computer to work and I don’t care about bleeding edge / rolling distros.

        And I will move to Wayland in a few years when all the issues are sorted out, which I suspect is part of people’s problems.

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      10 hours ago

      Linux is super reliable

      It depends on what you want to do with it, which version of which component you run and a couple of other things. In my own experience, if you want a “super reliable” system, get OpenBSD. Linux has a severe lack of QA, mainly because of its decoupled nature.