I'm probably jumping to conclusions, but Nvidia?
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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Yes it is
I explicitly bought an AMD CPU and GPU and did not have any trouble with both of them ever since
Just learn how to do everything in the TTY. GUIs are bloat
I already did, but wobbly windows is my love!
Somebody needs to make a wobbly terminal
Magnet on the side of my CRT 😍😍
I like this idea, great and cost effective tought!
Both wobbly and colorful
Just get a CRT with speakers instead, and then that's basically the same thing, with the bonus that it wiggles and your eardrums split open when you play anything at a volume higher than 10
Nvidia Arch user here, are you just forgetting to rebuild your kernel modules after a kernel or nvidia driver update?
You can just add a pacman hook that triggers mkinitcpio -P after the linux or nvidia packages are updated. I've never had a no-GUI situation from a stray update... maybe one or two that were my own doing when trying to set up UKI's though.
Why not just use DKMS?
The Arch Linux team releases Nvidia updates at the same time as kernel upgrades which should trigger a initramfs rebuild via mkinitcpio anyway
unless you do a partial upgrade anyway (never do that)
I just followed the note that's mentioned on the top of your link and installed the Nvidia driver as dkms package. I originally did that because of trouble with a new driver version and temporary downgrading is much smoother with dkms.
Also never had issues with the DE starting properly after upgrade since then.
Can I talk to you about our Lord and Savior Tumbleweed?
Last time I tried it, the more custom stuff I put on it(custom color scheme, window decorations etc.) the more it fell apart
Admittedly, I haven't done too much of that, but it might still be more stable than needing to reinstall your OS every 2-3 weeks?
Funny because just like those door to door bible sales, Tumbleweed promises magic and salvation, but completely crumbles under any stress or expansion
Join the NixOS side! I almost never get a broken boot, and if I do, I can always rollback and debug my config when I have time.
Just curious before distro-hopping.
What functionality does the reproducibility of nixOS serve to a user (like me) with only one desktop. Like I won't be installing the same system multiple times, I understand the 'predictable-ness' of a declarative system. But are there some other advantages?
I installed some broken Nvidia drivers and lost all video out. I rebooted the PC, selected the previous generation, and voila… working PC again. On Arch I’d be debugging it for hours.
Btrfs snapshots and auto snapshots is kind of the same?
NixOS can be managed with Git and you can bring your old environment to a new PC without reloading a full snapshot. Config and data are kept separate when you use Nix to handle the config
I'm in the middle of nix syntax (nixtax?) and good lord it is quite the learning curve. It has been fun hammering my system back to where it was with Arch though and I'm looking forward to the magical powers that will come with mastering the language.
Nothing but respect for the community, y'all are something else.
The „almost” part makes me a bit concerned, but i'm planning to give it a try
A few days ago I started using NixOS as my daily driver. I am yet to understand how to use home-manager and the nix language but right now I'm good with the main configuration.nix and fleek.
well arch moment, you could use snapshots or ostree to rollback if something like that happen
I usually just do a full reinstall, it's faster, requires less storage, and it's more futureproof. I have my home folder at a different partition, so the files aren't a problem. Archinstall made this a lot easier, and i love it.
What did you edited ? Arch user here, never had this kind of issue. Also if you managed to install Arch, you should be able to fix it(maybe you switched from terminals, try ctrl+alt+1-9)
Me looking from openSUSE Tumbleweed:
Time to switch to NixOS!