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Just installed Debian on a USB stick, and made it so that it boots in both UEFI and legacy BIOS modes. It works on any computer I plug it in, but I sometimes have to boot into command line and generate a new xorg.conf before loading a DE, depending on the video card.
Here's the guide I used (I didn't have a LiveDVD on hand so I had to do the finishing steps from a VirtualBox VM).
 
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TheBest said:
Nvidia has released an open sourced driver for Linux, and has it now on github. Phoronix article.
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This is quite a thing that I’d never expect to happen so soon.
Of note: While the driver itself isn’t open source, having the back-end of the info on how it works and such will definitely help with the Nouveau Nvidia Open-Source project and general optimization of various parts of it in the Linux kernel itself.
With all that we’ve gotten (Steam Deck, proton, this, etc) it might be the real Year of The Gaming Linux Experience™.

 
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I don't see a single mention in there about those hackers who were supposedly going to leak all Nvidia's chip designs unless they open-sourced a driver. Wonder what became of that.
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Most likely a two fold reasoning: With the airing of the grievances of Nvidia having only proprietary drivers, the public became more aware of it. To take some sweat off of them, they released an open sourced driver. It may also be that they've been meaning to have an open source driver for some time and with the news of the demands going public, they could also gauge how much popularity the idea of said driver.

Edit: This is just a spitball theory. I doubt we'll ever hear what happened if Nvidia doesn't say it.
 
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Fedora 36 is out.

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Grab any spin you like and come home, free man.
TheBest said:
Nvidia has released an open sourced driver for Linux, and has it now on github. Phoronix article.
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The desktop lead from Red Hat explained what this means for Linux, RHEL and Fedora:


/g/ weighs in.

 
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TheBest said:
Nvidia has released an open sourced driver for Linux, and has it now on github. Phoronix article.
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What's covered by this NVIDIA open-source initiative - NVIDIA's open kernel modules is already considered "production ready, opt-in" for data center GPUs. For GeForce and workstation GPUs, the open kernel module code is considered "alpha quality" but will be ramped up moving forward with future releases.
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Only Turing and newer GPUs will be supported by this open-source kernel driver. Pre-Turing GPUs are left to using the existing proprietary kernel drivers
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(Per Wiki article) Turing is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. [...] The architecture was first introduced in August 2018 at SIGGRAPH 2018 in the workstation-oriented Quadro RTX cards,
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NVIDIA's user-space libraries and OpenGL / Vulkan / OpenCL / CUDA drivers remain closed-source -- today's announcement is just about all the excitement in kernel space.
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TL;DR it's good news for data centers, computer scientists and GPU clusters with 2018 and newer cards. Personal computer users that aren't using their graphics cards for academic research can continue chanting "Fuck NVIDIA".
 
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Ahriman said:
Fedora 36 is out.

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Grab any spin you like and come home, free man.

The desktop lead from Red Hat explained what this means for Linux, RHEL and Fedora:


/g/ weighs in.

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I’ve been running the beta for about a month now. I quite like it so far (coming from EndeavourOS and PoPOS); except I did notice that using the screenshot function with gnome 42 in some games and applications will cause the computer to hard freeze and need a click on my restart button.

Also, I did find a good QRD on the Nvidia Open-Source news: https://youtu.be/P6fRJLN9VDw
 
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Ginger Nuggets said:
I’ve been running the beta for about a month now. I quite like it so far (coming from EndeavourOS and PoPOS); except I did notice that using the screenshot function with gnome 42 in some games and applications will cause the computer to hard freeze and need a click on my restart button.
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Is this on Wayland, by any chance?
 
AlephOne2Many said:
Is this on Wayland, by any chance?
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I’m still on x-org due to having some issues with gaming and other stuff when I tried Wayland; this is probably because I’m using an NVIDIA gpu (RTX 3080 LHR).
Hopefully once 37 or 38 rolls around the Nouveau driver or the proprietary driver will be able to run it better. Ideally I’d prefer to use Debian, but I can’t do it that well (without messing with a lot of stuff) given my current gpu (LHR - Low Hash Rate is a different hardware technicality compared to the standard RTX 3080).
 
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F36 review.


TL;DW it's pretty damn comfy.

Hell, I am running F35 with KDE (Wayland) and it has been rock-solid, not a single issue. I might just skip this version and wait till later this year until Fedora 37 comes out.
 
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F36 review.


TL;DW it's pretty damn comfy.

Hell, I am running F35 with KDE (Wayland) and it has been rock-solid, not a single issue. I might just skip this version and wait till later this year until Fedora 37 comes out.
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Fedora is my new favorite distro. The best of a leading-edge distro with far fewer stability issues. Everything I want to "just work" out of the box does exactly that, no tinkering needed. As much as tinkering satisfies my autism, I just don't have the time for that anymore. I took the plunge and am now full-timing Fedora 36 on my main desktop PC, no more dual boot. The only thing that disappointed me was that I expected Noto fonts to be the default everywhere, but GNOME still uses that ugly Cantarell font. Oh well, not a big deal to change them like I did in Fedora 35.

I was going to keep dual booting this and Win11 for a little while, but suddenly Win11 decided it didn't like my license (probably since I carried it over from Win10 and switched motherboards twice when my first one died, though I don't know why it decided this now instead of 6 months ago when I did my last swap) so I said fuck it and wiped the Win11 drive. Now I have a Win10 gaming VM set up nicely with passthrough for the GPU, SATA controller, the 1 TB NVMe drive for installing games on, and a dedicated USB controller, works like a charm. Just turn the VM on, flip a switch on the KVM and it's practically as good as native. The only things that tripped me up were having no refresh rates above 60 Hz (you still need to use the "Error 43" workarounds for that), and my racing wheel changes USB bus address when it calibrates on plugin, hence the need for a dedicated USB controller that I pass through directly.
 
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AlephOne2Many said:

DT tries to install the i3-Spin of Fedora, and proceeds to take all the most easily avoidable L's in the process.

I enjoy this dudes channel but holy shit was this a bad look for him.
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"Please type liveinst and press Enter to start the installer"
"Please type liveinst and press Enter to start the installer"
"Please type liveinst and press Enter to start the installer"
"Please type liveinst and press Enter to start the installer"

HOW DO I START THE INSTALLER

To be fair the i3 spin has basically no documentation, and Anaconda is kind of a pain in the ass sometimes, but that was pretty cringe. And his shtick of "super secure strong password" is kind of stupid and causes more problems than it's worth.
 
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Spasticus Autisticus said:
Fedora is my new favorite distro. The best of a leading-edge distro with far fewer stability issues. Everything I want to "just work" out of the box does exactly that, no tinkering needed. As much as tinkering satisfies my autism, I just don't have the time for that anymore. I took the plunge and am now full-timing Fedora 36 on my main desktop PC, no more dual boot. The only thing that disappointed me was that I expected Noto fonts to be the default everywhere, but GNOME still uses that ugly Cantarell font. Oh well, not a big deal to change them like I did in Fedora 35.

I was going to keep dual booting this and Win11 for a little while, but suddenly Win11 decided it didn't like my license (probably since I carried it over from Win10 and switched motherboards twice when my first one died, though I don't know why it decided this now instead of 6 months ago when I did my last swap) so I said fuck it and wiped the Win11 drive. Now I have a Win10 gaming VM set up nicely with passthrough for the GPU, SATA controller, the 1 TB NVMe drive for installing games on, and a dedicated USB controller, works like a charm. Just turn the VM on, flip a switch on the KVM and it's practically as good as native. The only things that tripped me up were having no refresh rates above 60 Hz (you still need to use the "Error 43" workarounds for that), and my racing wheel changes USB bus address when it calibrates on plugin, hence the need for a dedicated USB controller that I pass through directly.
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I have no clue how you can even stomach Windows 11. I gave it two hours before I went back to Mint, and none of my clients even want it. We have to usually go out and reinstall Windows 10 because Microsoft is sneaking in upgrades.
 
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I have no clue how you can even stomach Windows 11. I gave it two hours before I went back to Mint, and none of my clients even want it. We have to usually go out and reinstall Windows 10 because Microsoft is sneaking in upgrades.
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The only reason I installed it in the first place was that I upgraded to an i5-12600 and I didn't want to be throttled by Win10's lack of support for Thread Director. I didn't hate it, but I didn't particularly like it either and I didn't see any compelling reason to use Win11 other than the Thread Director support.
 
ducktales4gameboy said:
Urgh. Gotta love mystery hardware problems. Work laptop on manjaro suddenly decided my Thunderbolt port shouldn't work anymore. My work setup TB3 hub doesn't work, displayport alt mode seems to not work either but the port works fine as a standard usbc port. Absolutely nothing relevant in journalctl or dmesg.

No recent package changes, tried several different kernels including a patched one for a pcie bug someone on a list was having that caused the same symptoms on their machine. Such bullshit.
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If ur ok with it, I'd maybe try running a live boot of Fedora; having used both I tend to prefer Fedora (currently on F36)
For me Fedora falls in between the stability and and newness compared to Arch and Debian based systems; thereby making it a good middle ground (props to RHEL too).
 
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