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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mr_Esoteric@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

So I've been trying to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers on my homelab so I can get my fine ass art generated using Automatic1111 & Stable diffusion. I installed the Nvidia 510 server drivers, everything seems fine, then when I reboot, nothing. WTF Nvidia, why you gotta break X? Why is x even needed on a server driver. What's your problem Nvidia!

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[-] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I call them "novideo" because the nvidia GPU in a PC someone gave me was the bane of my existence on Linux. I ended up buying a Radeon for it because I got so tired of having no video after security updates. Nvidia seems to hate everybody except Windows for some reason. Even Apple ditched them long before they ditched Intel.

But yet, it seems like the majority of Linux users have nvidia anyway.

[-] RassilonianLegate@mstdn.social 10 points 1 year ago

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>But yet, it seems like the majority of Linux users have nvidia anyway.

Probably becouse it's more popular among windows users, so when most people switch to linux from Windows, they use the hardware they already had, which more often than not includes an nvidia GPU

[-] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 1 year ago

System76 and other Linux hardware vendors are still selling computers with nvidia GPUs built in. Which is stupid.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Nvidia seems to hate everybody except Windows for some reason.

It's called money. Microsoft and all these big tech companies have lots of agreements with eachother to support certain choices and ignore others. This is also why Lenovo has very limited choice of amd processors, and if they put that in, it's in a model with other serious flaws.

[-] danielton@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But it's still stupid, especially if it's about money, since Nvidia wants to sell a lot of chips to the Android market. And with Linux users being dumb enough to keep buying Nvidia products and using their mediocre proprietary drivers, nothing will ever change.

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