I’m using an AMD CPU and GPU so I would assume my hardware isn’t the issue, although my graphics card isn’t very old which may be why my drivers fail when upgrading. It’s an AMD RX 6950 XT
I’ve suffered this with multiple distros, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu, and one other that I can’t remember the name of, all of which upgraded to Ubuntu 24. KDE Neon held out for the LTS version, so I jumped over to KDE Neon. However, even this LTS version simply will not work. I don’t know why, but these newer drivers just completely ignore my relatively new system.
The only way I’m able to get into my OS is by getting into GRUB and forcing safe graphics.
Off topic but has anyone else had things like this happen all year? It’s been rough as a new linux adopter (only been on linux as a daily driver for about a year) and I honestly just wanna cry on the days that my computer just stops reaching the login screen.
For the record, reinstalling the GPU drivers fixed this, but it sucks to have to do this.
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What drivers did you reinstall, and how? ? The ‘stock’ drivers that come via mesa and the kernel are already included, so there is nothing to install for 95% of people and uses cases. If you installed the proprietary drivers from AMD, those are for workstation use and can be a major PITA to install and use on desktop systems, and are quite unnecessary for most people. Mainly they can be good for ROCM and opencl stuff, though iirc those components can be installed without replacing the actual video drivers. In my case, they significantly degraded game performance.
Until recently, I had a “gaming” system I built with an RX 6650 XT, and It Just Worked ootb . Though I run KDE neon (22.04 on that system at the time), I did test on Kubuntu 24.04 when it came out, and also had zero issues.
Dang, I miss that setup 
fwiw, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and KDE neon are all the same exact OS under the desktop GUI The same drivers, kernels, system libraries, so one can expect them to behave mostly in identical manners.