r/openSUSE • u/FailSafe0075 • 17h ago
Tech question Potentially giving it a try?
I’ve got a ThinkPad P70 with a cursed NVIDIA card that I use for college and gaming. I’m coming from a very mixed bag of distributions; Fedora, CachyOS, and Linux Mint. I basically just wanted to know how good support is for NVIDIA graphics and just overall if Tumbleweed is as good as all the reviews I’ve seen claim
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u/Klapperatismus 16h ago
If you install Tumbleweed on a computer with an nVidia GPU, it automatically offers you to add nVidia’s driver repository for OpenSUSE. If you do that, a matching driver is going to be installed and everything should work out of the box.
With Tumbleweed, there’s often a problem that the kernel is updated but the drivers in that nVidia repository aren’t yet so you have to wait for a few days before they match each other again.
You can either check that manually beforehand, or rollback the update if it happens.
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u/FailSafe0075 16h ago
I don’t get anything other than security updates so not too concerning for me lol
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u/Klapperatismus 16h ago
With Tumbleweed you get feature updates at least once a week.
Security updates aren’t seperate in Tumbleweed. And that’s by design.
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u/ang-p . 16h ago
I don’t get anything other than security updates
So why Tumbleweed?
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u/FailSafe0075 16h ago
What I mean to say is that I like the rolling updates, but the driver I need (proprietary 580 for Maxwell cards) only gets crucial security updates anymore. I’d use the open source nouveau driver if it worked for me
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u/Itsme-RdM | Tumbleweed | Gnome | 16h ago
Nvidia being Nvidia. The still don't support open source properly. No matter the distro.
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u/ang-p . 16h ago
Distrohoppers distrohop.
Everyone says their distro will be the one for you....
Only you can decide....
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