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[–] adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You should know nvidia is the worst and it is definitely an nvidia problem. Nothing else (even DNS) is, such a pain on linux. Nvidia routinely ships broken software on their stable branch even for their top of the line consumer cards.

I have two 4k monitors and run many flavors of Linux as daily drivers. Plus I have a 4090. It's not a super common setup but for a company as huge as nvidia they should be testing dual monitor setups and it is clear they do not. I have stopped updating my nvidia drivers after the 3rd time I lost basic functionality after a driver update.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You should know how dkms works or get a job that suits you better. That's an amazing level of incompetence for someone in a professional position.

[–] adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No idea why you took this personal or why you assumed I didnt know why DKMS is. DKMS doesn't work for every situation.

Nvidia has the money to ship a product that works and is compatible with rolling updates like every other driver in existence. Ive never had to use dkms for my amd cards.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didn't take it personally but installing core software packages from websites instead of using your distro's package manager is the worst possible practice. Absolutely nothing that should be recommended publically without anyone with a clue protesting. I don't really believe the "DKMS doesn't work for any situation" argument either, tbh. Either there is a miodule matching your kernel, compiler and glibc then DKMS will just work or there isn't. In the latter case you better believe in your distro's maintainers' descisions or you really know what you're doing - and the fact that you're overriding package management in a production environment tells me that you don't. Better someone on the internets is telling you than your boss, believe me.

[–] adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 days ago

Bro I used Arch linux and installed via pacman. I think maybe you are confusing me for the guy telling people to visit nvidia.com and follow their instructions. Appreciate the lecture though.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yea I heard nvidia is terrible with Linux. Unfortunately in my line of work I don't really have a choice... maybe with HIP-RT... in a few years... let's see!

I'll be conservative with graphics updates then. Thanks a lot for the advice

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I only ever upgrade my graphics drivers when I upgrade my kernel.