Comment on "You should probably just throw it away"
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks agoBest of luck to you my friend. Like I said, fedora was my go-to for years, and I regularly fought against the Nvidia drivers and kept going back to windows.
I’m running AMD now, so I’m hoping my experience is better than it was when I was using big red
zod000@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I’m responding to you, but this is more for others to see since you moved to AMD.
I used Nvidia cards for many years on Linux and only recently switched back to AMD. The main issues I ran into with Nvidia were related to driver updates breaking things rather than things not working in general. So, I eventually found that holding Nvidia drivers to versions that worked without issues was the best bet and only updating them on occasion after they had been out for a bit and the consensus was that they weren’t breaking stuff.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Just to make things easier on others (or myself of the amd drivers have similar issues), how would one go about holding the driver at a specific version?
zod000@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I’m on a Debian based distro, but it is super simple. To hold a driver, or any package to a version just use “sudo aptitude hold <name or package here>” to undo this at any point just use “sudo aptitude unhold <name or package here>”. If you use the GUI package manager, there is a “Lock Version” option in a menu that does it.
If you’re on a Redhat based distro, Federa et al, I believe the keyword is “versionlock” for yum or dnf, but I would definitely recommend looking at a reference for the command before blinding following me on that one.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Just to make things easier on others (or myself of the amd drivers have similar issues), how would one go about holding the driver at a specific version?