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Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

Definitely envious of them. I can't get a stable system and I'm convinced wayland+nvidia are the culprit.
Firefox randomly crashes, steam randomly crashes, CS2 randomly crashes, plasma desktop randomly freezes (requires hardware button reset), haruna randomly crashes. I've never had a more unstable system. I'm greeted with 3 notifications of some process crashing at every boot.
I'd love to fully switch, but I cant have a system where things randomly crash like that. All this on latest Fedora KDE and I'm fairly certain I have everything needed installed from the driver side of things. On two year old hardware.
Its such a different experience from running a headless debian system.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I have been running Bazzite (with KDE) and an Nvidia GPU (RTX 3070) for almost 6 months and I have not had any issues.

    Everything worked with no additional tweaks. I was playing Dead Space (2023) almost half an hour after installing the OS, it was amazing. If you have the time, you should give it a try, I highly recommend it.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I couldn't get Fedora working well with Nvidia. Bazzite worked for me out of the box. Bazzite is just Fedora with some out of the box configurations, so it must be possible to make Fedora work with Nvidia. I am just not capable of making it work.

    I am happy with Bazzite though.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm sorry to hear that! I've been having good experiences with Wayland + NVIDIA on both Ubuntu 25.10 and EndeavourOS (whatever version is the latest). There are minor annoyances, but nothing as dire as what you're describing.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I may need to look at other distros a bit, but KDE is non negotiable for me. I hope its not plasma that's the problem.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I've been on Kubuntu with a RTX gpu for the past year. No crashes, no problems. For the April release I swapped to Wayland and it also works fine. I think Wayland has better gui scaling and multi monitor support too.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Maybe kde is the problem? I use Wayland + Nvidia and before xorg. I never liked kde it was always buggy for me so I haven't used it for many years but when I did was it xorg + Nvidia on Manjaro. But since I went with other DEs have I never had any problems.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Please try memtest86. I had issues that almost looked like this.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I'm having similar issues, didn't have many crashes in Windows. I'm getting quite a few errors in memtest. I even disabled my memory overclock. I wonder if Windows was detecting bad sections of memory and not using them, similar to bad hard drives.

    EDIT: I found this grub option, gonna try this https://askubuntu.com/a/1227581

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash memtest=4"

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago

    Just use Xorg. Wayland is notorious for Nvidia issues.

    One in a while there is an issue with CS2 for me too, but it's usually because of fullscreen/windowed mode and the window manager being aggressive. Try turning it off/on with launch parameters.

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