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yesman @lemmy.world

2d ago

Those bastards lied to me

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it's 2025, what popular distro makes it not easy?
- Nix
- For nvidia? Alpine Linux. It's so hard there is 0 support outside of nouveau
  (I mean, Alpine uses MUSL instead of GLIBC, so expected)
  For AMD? doas apk add linux-firmware-amdgpu mesa mesa-tools vulkan-loaders xf86-video-amdgpu There, you're good to go(wiki also tells you that)
  
  Use a DIY distro made for containers
  Cry about having do DIY
  Merkste selber
- idk about 2025 but as of a few years ago, Slackware used to not have a dependency resolver in whatever it uses to download packages. You had to resolve dependencies manually.
  Luckily I switched to Gentoo and 3 years later after my system was done compiling, it was already out of date so when I used emerge to update my system, it borked itself because it was so out of date.
  
  Yes, but Slackware. That's obviously intentional
- Gentoo, LFS, Slackware.
  
  popular
  if you're using any of those you can't complain about having to run a few command lines
  
  Slackware's package manager is extremely easy to use:
  slackpkg upgrade-all upgrades all installed packages
  slackpkg install-new installs all packages that were added to the repo
  slackpkg clean-system uninstalls all packages that were removed from the repo
  And that's all.
  
  LFS is not a distro and I highly doubt it's popular as well.

Yeah for NVDIA you either wanna use a distro that bakes it in (Bazzite, PopOS) or hop over to tge command line and install the drivers there, e. g. Fedora:
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
No idea how GUIs are for this nowadays (Manjaro, Linix Mint, Ubuntu, back when I used those distros it wasn't working too well most of the time).
- Fesora shows a popup on first boot along the lines if "click here if you need NViDIA drivers." If you install an Nvidia GPU aft the fact you have to search for it, but there is a GUI.
- Arch-based distros do have the nvidia-dkms package available, works great in my experience. Linux Mint and Ubuntu got a dedicated driver utility for this. Debian provides a "nvidia-driver" package. OpenSuse provides it via YaST, or manually in a dedicated repo.
  Does it work as good as having the driver pre-installed? Hell no, those nvidia drivers are gosh darn awful in nature. We can just hope NVK can completely replace them asap.
- I honestly really like pop os. I use it as a daily driver and it's been great. The only thing I hate is that I can't change the system color but I know there's an infinite amount of ways around that.

Until now I have used Ubuntu, Mint, both Opensuses, Arch, Endeavour, Fedora, Manjaro, and Gentoo
And not a single time did I have any problem installing any of these

It is tho? Nvidia-dkms and steam
It's just to install? The package manager fixed dependencies and all - if ya wanna complain then write what's wrong...

Here's what I learnt the hard way... if you're having a problem, don't go the hard way, it's likely something extremely simple you missed, check the gui, restart your computer, at most reinstall some packages (either through gui or cli)

I could be that jackass that says "well your first mistake was buying x when you should have bought y." I'd be correct, but it wouldn't be helpful to anyone actually trying to deal with this kind of problem.
I'm still "new" to linux myself, despite attempting to use it several times over the years, so I don't have any actually useful advice. I can however say that linux mint (after getting it installed and updated and upgraded and updated again), runs flawlessly on modern AMD hardware. The package manager even has a gui!

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