There are many reasons to dislike Nvidia on Linux. Here is a little thing that bugs me all the time, the updates. Normally the system updates would be quick and fast, but with the proprietary drivers of Nvidia involved, it gets quiet slow process. And I am not even talking about any other problem I encounter, just about the updates.

As an Archlinux based system user (EndeavourOS to be precise), I get new Kernel updates all the time. That means every time a new Kernel version is installed, the Nvidia driver DKMS has to be installed too. And that is basically the slowest part. But that’s not too bad, even though it’s doing this twice for each Kernel I have once.

What’s more infuriating is, if you also happen to use Flatpaks for a very few applications. I really don’t have many Flatpaks at all. Yet, the Nvidia drivers are installed in 7 versions or what?! And they are full downloads, each 340 MB or more. This takes ages and is the only part that takes long to update Flatpak system. I always do flatpak remove --unused to make sure nothing useless is present. /RANT (EDIT: Just typos corrected.)

    • thingsiplayOP
      5•1 year ago

      @aleph “Cascadia Code”
      Here is fastfetch output:

      OS: EndeavourOS x86_64
Kernel: 6.1.51-1-lts
Uptime: 50 mins
Packages: 1149 (pacman), 34 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Display (AG271QG): 2560x1440 @ 120Hz
DE: qtile
WM: Qtile 0.22.1 (X11)
Theme: Arc-Dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: Qogir-dark [GTK2/3]
Font: Cascadia Code (12pt) [GTK2/3]
Cursor: Qogir
Terminal: xfce4-terminal 1.1.0
Terminal Font: Cascadia Code (13pt)
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E3-1230 v3 (8) @ 3,7 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Memory: 3,11 GiB / 15,57 GiB (20%)
Disk (/): 122,70 GiB / 227,21 GiB (54%) - ext4
Disk (/media/Backup): 149,83 GiB / 916,70 GiB (16%) - ext4
Disk (/media/Emulation): 3,83 TiB / 5,41 TiB (71%) - ext4
Disk (/media/My): 1,04 TiB / 3,58 TiB (29%) - ext4
Disk (/media/System): 411,39 GiB / 915,82 GiB (45%) - ext4
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
        • thingsiplayOP
          1•1 year ago

          @aleph Hope I do not get cancelled for, but this is actually a font from Windows/Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Code It is Open Source and was the default font for my OS I think. The problem is finding a font that looks good and has good support for emojis, glyphs and icons, ligatures for programming and such. And I wanted to try different font.

          • @aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Heresy! /s

            Is that really the default font for Xfce-ternimal on EndeavourOS? I use the same distro but with Gnome, which is probably how that little detail passed me by.

            My personal ride-or-die terminal font is Jetbrains Mono, which you might want to try out. I know it supports ligatures although not sure about emojis etc.

            • thingsiplayOP
              1•1 year ago

              @aleph I use Qtile and instead setting it up from scratch (again), I decided to use the community Qtile spin on EndeavourOS. It uses a few XFCE applications, but not the Desktop Environment. I just checked the current state of the source and it sure is the default: https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/qtile/blob/main/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc

              BTW Jetbrains Mono is one of the fonts I wanted try out. But right now, Cascadia is new to me as well and I quiet like it. So will use it for a while now and maybe next time I switch to Jet.

              • @aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Ah, that explains it - the community spin changed the default. Thought I was going crazy for a second there 😄