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NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one
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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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I’d recommend avoiding NVidia in general. Their drivers are intensely hit or miss. Any time anything has gone wrong with my PC, NVidia and their shitty drivers have been the culprit.
This seems unlikely. You've never had a hard drive failure, bad RAM, missing dependencies, malware or bugs in any other software except NVIDIA?
You must be one heck of a statistical outlier.
In the past two years? Nope, entirely NVidia. There’s been a bunch of problems, absolutely, but it’s always been NVidia’s garbage drivers at the core of it.
2 years without a non-video card related problem? I don't think I go 2 weeks without some issue or another (Arch life).
Literally haven't had a single problem on arch that was due to arch in like 6 years.
Nvidia has caused more issues then arch has.
Are you guys LLMs? This is English but it doesn't seem to have any correlation to actual reality.
What are you doing that you have constant problems with Linux? What distro, what hardware? I've been using Linux since Slackware decades ago and it's been years since I had to babysit it.
I'm using Arch. There are constant things that need tweaking and adjusting. Configuration-wise I couldn't use the analog and digital outputs of my sound card using the default Pipewire/Wireplumber configuration
Problems this week include things like Freetube failing to work because Google updated YT and a script breaking because Pandas updated to 3.0 when the script uses 2.0.
Not world ending problems, but certainly not in any way graphics card related (I also use an NVIDIA graphics card).
Someone making the statement that they have had no computer problems in years that were not related to their graphics card is simply nonsense or has some trivial explanation, like they have never updated and are suffering from the same problem for years or are defining 'problem' in some limiting way.
Okay, then I think there's a communication issue because I felt you were talking about serious problems with Linux as an operating system. These examples are unavoidable in a decentralized, volunteer model. FreeTube software is failing because it's fighting a corporate entity that is protecting it's revenue - the same will be happening on the Windows version. Unless the script was written as part of Pandas, there's no reason to expect them to 'just work'. That's one independent party doing work that impacts another independent party, and will likely be fixed. That kind problem happens every day in Windows but Windows is not considered unstable because of it.
I've gone 4 years on my Ubuntu laptop (DELL XPS-13) without any serious problems.
My one year old Lenovo Gaming laptop with an NVIDIA chip, however.... Audio randomly stops working and I have to kick-start ALSA to get it going again - Until it just blows out audio entirely and I have to reboot. My only work-around is to use bluetooth audio.
So yeah, NVIDIA has some responsibility here. I don't have any other problems on the Lenovo (also Ubuntu) either. That said, I've had few problems with GenAI or Steam video games like Cyberpunk 2077 on NVIDIA (other than audio), so it isn't all bad.
How? I’m running Tumbleweed on my desktop which is supposedly more stable than Arch, but I’ve had no problems with Arch on my laptop. Granted I’ve only had that for four months or so.