It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way t…
Am I the only one that can’t manage to make their Nvidia GTX 1060 run correctly on Linux? It has way worse performance than on Windows, even with the proprietary drivers.
My son was going to switch to Linux this week. He has a GTX 1060.
Nouveau might be good enough by now for most games that will run on a 1060, maybe worth a try.
Am I the only one that can’t manage to make their Nvidia GTX 1060 run correctly on Linux? It has way worse performance than on Windows, even with the proprietary drivers.
I’ve tried both Kubuntu and Linux Mint.
I guess he can’t say he uses arch btw
It’s not that bad as I understand it. If you are using arch with a Pascal GPU you can switch to the legacy proprietary branch. https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/
He wants to use Mint. This is what is called planned obsolescence. I say what Linus Torvalds says.
Might be able to use Mint Debian Edition.
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