If you ever want to go back to Fedora, try Nobara!! It's more of a "gaming focused" distro but they have kernel customizations and nvidia drivers installed out of the box. I had issues with nvidia drivers on my desktop and nobara was one of the ones that actually worked out for me with no issues thus far! Anyway, I subbed and I hope to see some vids again!
Thank you ,you are spot on ,new LInux users like myself struggle alot with what others may seem as easy but we keep learning and keep with Linux !! I'm 48yo ,new to Linux ,6months in and hopefully when I'm 80 ,I'll be a Linux Fanboy,Thanks for the channel ,keep em vids coming
Pop OS is not a bad distro, in fact they treated it (prior to their work on Cosmic) more like a semi-rolling release like Fedora. These days I am waiting for them to update their base but I tend to lean on either PopOS or Linux Mint these days.
If you upgraded to the 5.18 kernel, you might have hit the bug between Intel and nvidia with the new Intel IBT support... adding to your kernel config to boot "ibt=off" fixes the problem...
I'm also having issues with nvidia drivers on my laptop with hybrid graphics. After a few minutes of not using my system, the screen will hibetnate and nvidia will turn itself off or something, because the journalctl log says 'GPU has fallen off the bus'. I haven't been able to fix this yet. It's driving me crazy ☹️
After commenting on this video, I went to boot up one of my laptops with Nvidia and now the damn external monitor is not working!!! You jinxed me 😂🤣😂 Let me try another laptop...
I know some distros have already changed over to the opensource Nvidia drivers so maybe thats the issue? I know EndeavorOS and Arch itself are using the opensource DKMS drivers now. I have noticed a few quirks on my EndeavorOS install atm but nothing like this
This is why I recently bought a HP ProBook 455 G9, all AMD and no video issues. I assume you have packman repo for drivers. I have to say I haven't any issues with graphics recently on any of my 4 laptops with Nvidia.
I recently Dell g15 laptop idk much about pc so.. yesterday I updated my 1650 graphic drivers and my witcher 3 and gta 5 is lagging not working smooth like yesterday I tried reverting drivers to olders version but it didn't help plz help
I encountered a lot of weirdness trying to update POP_OS last weekend and started going distro surfing. Incidentally, it was how I found your channel. I don't think the issue was because of my nvidia card, but I encountered major issues trying out differing spins of Fedora and look up the issues and some of the reasons included that Fedora 36 wasn't really ready to handle new nvidia drivers, and that nvidia users might want to use Fedora 35 (which is about to EOL in a couple of months). I ended up with Budgie, and even then it automatically switched to the intel iGpu on my processor after restarting.
Same problems here.. using UBUNTU 22.04. The laptop is from 2014, cpu i5-4200m with nvidia GT 750M and 16gb or RAM.. with the nvidia X-Server settings there is no way I can just use my intel integrated card.. and temperature is boiling often up over 90° when opening few tabs with firefox.. Thinking to pass to another system as Lubuntu or Xubuntu, and try to avoid Nvidia updates.. if possible. (Pop OS consume same amount of resources of Ubuntu I read..). Anyway, I love your channel.
I have the exact same laptop and I'm really fed up with Windows but couldn't get the nvidia GPU to work properly on Linux. I tried Kubuntu 22.04, Pop OS 22.04 and Fedora 36 both with the propriatery and the open-source nvidia drivers right about the time you posted this video and I had gfx glitches with all of them. I use a triple screen setup through a thunderbolt dock (internal + 1x hdmi + 1x hdmi through thunderbolt). Wayland apparently was more happy with that and I only had flashes on context menus and window bars, x11 would only show the desktop and cursor on the external screens. Couldn't get hardware acceleration to work on any browser and I didn't even dare try gaming. Is my screen setup too exotic or should I give it another try? Which distro would you say is most stable on this machine?
Hey John! I have just one external screen that goes thru the HDMI output and whether it was Endeavour OS or POP OS it's worked like it should. I use the thunderbolt port for my external drive so I haven't experienced what you have. I wonder how well the linux kernel is seeing your thunderbolt connected monitor. Maybe try a different Linux Kernel...maybe use an Arch based distro(like endeavour OS) and see if changing to some more recent kernels will help.
Hello Mate, I've ordered a Dell G15 5520 (i7 with Nvidia 3050 Ti). For my setup, I want to install a single boot Linux, shut the lid on this laptop and instead have it drive two external monitors. I am not particular about a distro and would really love to know in your experience which linux offers the best driver support for this laptop? For the second video port, in place of a thunderbolt it has a "USB-C with Display Port in Alt mode". Do you reckon I could connect my HDMI monitor via a simple "USB-C to HDMI" cable, or would i need an expensive adapter/ dock? Again thank for your advice!
Yes, this is the problem of bleeding edges distros. I use my laptop for work and because of that I prefer the good and rock solid debian. If it works, it works and no headaches. Although popos uses a long support ubuntu, I still think is buggy for my dayly drive. In debian, you can still use some backported softwares if you wish something more updated or the flatpaks. Ok, I'm debian fanboy.
PopOS is the only distro I could ever get working flawless out of the box with those pesky Nvidia drivers too, that's why I've stuck to AMD since I made the switch. Just too much of a hassle.
Thanks man to come up with the issue. I also have lately spent many hours of frustration and forced distro hopping. I really think that I will never ever buy some Nvidia crap notebook.i don't get to have the benefits of Nvidia and I do get the downsides of it. Nvidia stick to Torvalds finger!.
It's good for you to get used to an Ubuntu/Debian based distro since thats what most people are using, since you are a Linux youtuber I guess it'd be nice to have some extra knowledge in that end
I'm sorry, but Windows always get shitted on for the occasional issues it has with updates, but these are often rare, they often do not happen to most people. Windows so ubiquitous that if it occur that frequently people would rite. Linux on the other hand this is a a FREQUENT occurance, so frequent distrotube had to make a video of this several days ago. Now I don't differentiate between issues with linux kernal vs packages wither whatever. Reality for most normal person, something either works or it doesn't and the fact that your system broke is an issue. As DJ Ware said, by definite rolling releases are unstable at least according to how Debian describes what stability is. The fac that if you spend any length of time not updating yourself means risking breaking it is an issue. For example with Windows, I could not update by POS laptop for 3 years, then turn it on, update it, and things will be just fine. Same with MACOS, but with Linux, especially with rolling releases, this becomes risking. This is why debian stable or the distros severs are base out of are not updated frequently and thus are extremely stable. this to me, is an existential problem with linux that they need to fix...but as always, Linux isn't one OS, but a fragmented OS with many distribution players, so there will never be a coordinated effort to fix this. In the end like always, it just seem the better approach to things is to go Debian Base and preferably and LTS base system. You said something in your video that had me thinking. you said.. you are already missing Endevour OS (ARCH), while using POPOS, now I get POPOS is a curated distro base on a different distro, but ultimately, what about Arch are you missing, is it being on the bleeding edge? is it the theming of endovour OS that you miss, cause these can be achieve on pretty much any distro. Is it a work flow issue? because that seems like a desktop environment issue that you had? End to last comment: While it would be great if all manufacturers released their source code and made things open sources, this is YET another reason why this whole anti-proprietary software stance make no sense to me. As long as humans are humsns, there will always be some sort of proprietary software. To me it's like socialist/communist vs Captialism. while in theory communism is fine, in practice though, captialism and the drive to make more money, leads to technological advances, risk by risk takers that leads to innovation, that a purely socialist country can never achieve as the age old... why should I try harder If I get paid the same amount is everythe issue. A company like Apple is able to constantly push the needle and make revolutionary products, currently the M1 chips that wont' be achieve in any free and open source setting. In other words, it great to have fee and open source, but Linux need proprietary software.....PERIOD. Stop with that Free alternative Libre Office... the world uses Microsoft Office; now Microsoft isn't infallible, just look at internet explorer, but it required another proprietary browser like Chrome to spell the end. Microsoft Office ain't going anywhere if Libre Office is it's main competition. Gain market share and get a real effort from NVidia to release a Geforce Experience like software from Linux, none of that bootleg nouvous drivers. Last Quesiton, I missed your videos, but Why did you switch from MACOS? it's a question I asked because Linux folks are always fixated on Hey leave Windows for Linux, and I'm always like... are you looking at the present landscape... people who leave Windows go to MAC, not Linux; You need to convince people why NOT to use MACOS, as it is stable, unix base, pretty much has the best looking UI, while also being fully integrated with multiple other produces like laptop, desktop, phones, iwatch, while being secure and all. I think the presence of MACOS is the biggest existential threat to Linux gaining marketshare and not Microsoft, as the world uses Microsoft Windows, but a different product is desired, the coolness of apple products, while still having all the key proprietary software makes going linux a complete afterthought for the general public.
If you ever want to go back to Fedora, try Nobara!! It's more of a "gaming focused" distro but they have kernel customizations and nvidia drivers installed out of the box. I had issues with nvidia drivers on my desktop and nobara was one of the ones that actually worked out for me with no issues thus far! Anyway, I subbed and I hope to see some vids again!
Had to subscribe, keep up the great videos
Thank you ,you are spot on ,new LInux users like myself struggle alot with what others may seem as easy but we keep learning and keep with Linux !! I'm 48yo ,new to Linux ,6months in and hopefully when I'm 80 ,I'll be a Linux Fanboy,Thanks for the channel ,keep em vids coming
Also miss the content from your channel, I can't believe its already been a year since your last video.... I hope everything is going well for you!
Pop OS is not a bad distro, in fact they treated it (prior to their work on Cosmic) more like a semi-rolling release like Fedora. These days I am waiting for them to update their base but I tend to lean on either PopOS or Linux Mint these days.
Been a long time since you've posted an update. How are things going?
If you upgraded to the 5.18 kernel, you might have hit the bug between Intel and nvidia with the new Intel IBT support... adding to your kernel config to boot "ibt=off" fixes the problem...
I'm also having issues with nvidia drivers on my laptop with hybrid graphics. After a few minutes of not using my system, the screen will hibetnate and nvidia will turn itself off or something, because the journalctl log says 'GPU has fallen off the bus'. I haven't been able to fix this yet. It's driving me crazy ☹️
After commenting on this video, I went to boot up one of my laptops with Nvidia and now the damn external monitor is not working!!! You jinxed me 😂🤣😂
Let me try another laptop...
I know some distros have already changed over to the opensource Nvidia drivers so maybe thats the issue? I know EndeavorOS and Arch itself are using the opensource DKMS drivers now. I have noticed a few quirks on my EndeavorOS install atm but nothing like this
This is why I recently bought a HP ProBook 455 G9, all AMD and no video issues. I assume you have packman repo for drivers.
I have to say I haven't any issues with graphics recently on any of my 4 laptops with Nvidia.
I recently Dell g15 laptop idk much about pc so..
yesterday I updated my 1650 graphic drivers and my witcher 3 and gta 5 is lagging not working smooth like yesterday I tried reverting drivers to olders version but it didn't help plz help
I encountered a lot of weirdness trying to update POP_OS last weekend and started going distro surfing. Incidentally, it was how I found your channel. I don't think the issue was because of my nvidia card, but I encountered major issues trying out differing spins of Fedora and look up the issues and some of the reasons included that Fedora 36 wasn't really ready to handle new nvidia drivers, and that nvidia users might want to use Fedora 35 (which is about to EOL in a couple of months). I ended up with Budgie, and even then it automatically switched to the intel iGpu on my processor after restarting.
Same problems here.. using UBUNTU 22.04. The laptop is from 2014, cpu i5-4200m with nvidia GT 750M and 16gb or RAM.. with the nvidia X-Server settings there is no way I can just use my intel integrated card.. and temperature is boiling often up over 90° when opening few tabs with firefox.. Thinking to pass to another system as Lubuntu or Xubuntu, and try to avoid Nvidia updates.. if possible. (Pop OS consume same amount of resources of Ubuntu I read..). Anyway, I love your channel.
I have the exact same laptop and I'm really fed up with Windows but couldn't get the nvidia GPU to work properly on Linux. I tried Kubuntu 22.04, Pop OS 22.04 and Fedora 36 both with the propriatery and the open-source nvidia drivers right about the time you posted this video and I had gfx glitches with all of them. I use a triple screen setup through a thunderbolt dock (internal + 1x hdmi + 1x hdmi through thunderbolt). Wayland apparently was more happy with that and I only had flashes on context menus and window bars, x11 would only show the desktop and cursor on the external screens. Couldn't get hardware acceleration to work on any browser and I didn't even dare try gaming.
Is my screen setup too exotic or should I give it another try? Which distro would you say is most stable on this machine?
Hey John! I have just one external screen that goes thru the HDMI output and whether it was Endeavour OS or POP OS it's worked like it should. I use the thunderbolt port for my external drive so I haven't experienced what you have. I wonder how well the linux kernel is seeing your thunderbolt connected monitor. Maybe try a different Linux Kernel...maybe use an Arch based distro(like endeavour OS) and see if changing to some more recent kernels will help.
Hello Mate, I've ordered a Dell G15 5520 (i7 with Nvidia 3050 Ti). For my setup, I want to install a single boot Linux, shut the lid on this laptop and instead have it drive two external monitors. I am not particular about a distro and would really love to know in your experience which linux offers the best driver support for this laptop? For the second video port, in place of a thunderbolt it has a "USB-C with Display Port in Alt mode". Do you reckon I could connect my HDMI monitor via a simple "USB-C to HDMI" cable, or would i need an expensive adapter/ dock? Again thank for your advice!
Are you coming back?
Yes, this is the problem of bleeding edges distros. I use my laptop for work and because of that I prefer the good and rock solid debian. If it works, it works and no headaches. Although popos uses a long support ubuntu, I still think is buggy for my dayly drive. In debian, you can still use some backported softwares if you wish something more updated or the flatpaks. Ok, I'm debian fanboy.
PopOS is the only distro I could ever get working flawless out of the box with those pesky Nvidia drivers too, that's why I've stuck to AMD since I made the switch. Just too much of a hassle.
Thanks man to come up with the issue. I also have lately spent many hours of frustration and forced distro hopping. I really think that I will never ever buy some Nvidia crap notebook.i don't get to have the benefits of Nvidia and I do get the downsides of it. Nvidia stick to Torvalds finger!.
It's good for you to get used to an Ubuntu/Debian based distro since thats what most people are using, since you are a Linux youtuber I guess it'd be nice to have some extra knowledge in that end
I'm sorry, but Windows always get shitted on for the occasional issues it has with updates, but these are often rare, they often do not happen to most people. Windows so ubiquitous that if it occur that frequently people would rite.
Linux on the other hand this is a a FREQUENT occurance, so frequent distrotube had to make a video of this several days ago. Now I don't differentiate between issues with linux kernal vs packages wither whatever. Reality for most normal person, something either works or it doesn't and the fact that your system broke is an issue. As DJ Ware said, by definite rolling releases are unstable at least according to how Debian describes what stability is. The fac that if you spend any length of time not updating yourself means risking breaking it is an issue. For example with Windows, I could not update by POS laptop for 3 years, then turn it on, update it, and things will be just fine. Same with MACOS, but with Linux, especially with rolling releases, this becomes risking. This is why debian stable or the distros severs are base out of are not updated frequently and thus are extremely stable. this to me, is an existential problem with linux that they need to fix...but as always, Linux isn't one OS, but a fragmented OS with many distribution players, so there will never be a coordinated effort to fix this. In the end like always, it just seem the better approach to things is to go Debian Base and preferably and LTS base system.
You said something in your video that had me thinking. you said.. you are already missing Endevour OS (ARCH), while using POPOS, now I get POPOS is a curated distro base on a different distro, but ultimately, what about Arch are you missing, is it being on the bleeding edge? is it the theming of endovour OS that you miss, cause these can be achieve on pretty much any distro. Is it a work flow issue? because that seems like a desktop environment issue that you had?
End to last comment: While it would be great if all manufacturers released their source code and made things open sources, this is YET another reason why this whole anti-proprietary software stance make no sense to me. As long as humans are humsns, there will always be some sort of proprietary software. To me it's like socialist/communist vs Captialism. while in theory communism is fine, in practice though, captialism and the drive to make more money, leads to technological advances, risk by risk takers that leads to innovation, that a purely socialist country can never achieve as the age old... why should I try harder If I get paid the same amount is everythe issue. A company like Apple is able to constantly push the needle and make revolutionary products, currently the M1 chips that wont' be achieve in any free and open source setting. In other words, it great to have fee and open source, but Linux need proprietary software.....PERIOD. Stop with that Free alternative Libre Office... the world uses Microsoft Office; now Microsoft isn't infallible, just look at internet explorer, but it required another proprietary browser like Chrome to spell the end. Microsoft Office ain't going anywhere if Libre Office is it's main competition. Gain market share and get a real effort from NVidia to release a Geforce Experience like software from Linux, none of that bootleg nouvous drivers.
Last Quesiton, I missed your videos, but Why did you switch from MACOS? it's a question I asked because Linux folks are always fixated on Hey leave Windows for Linux, and I'm always like... are you looking at the present landscape... people who leave Windows go to MAC, not Linux; You need to convince people why NOT to use MACOS, as it is stable, unix base, pretty much has the best looking UI, while also being fully integrated with multiple other produces like laptop, desktop, phones, iwatch, while being secure and all. I think the presence of MACOS is the biggest existential threat to Linux gaining marketshare and not Microsoft, as the world uses Microsoft Windows, but a different product is desired, the coolness of apple products, while still having all the key proprietary software makes going linux a complete afterthought for the general public.