One ones do, but newer ones are in the kernel. GTX 1650 and newer cards all pretty much work drama-free. Except for software glitches in the drivers, of course, but that’s a universal problem.
HOWEVER! There is actually a way to get older NVIDIA cards working at least with the open-source “Nouveau” drivers. They’re less performant than the proprietary drivers, but they do generally work. See Use a pre-Turing (older than GTX 1630) NVIDIA GPU - KDE Community
My XPS 15 Intel built graphics work well enough as I’m not a gamer and enabling the NVIDIA card with the Nouveau drivers seems like having two graphics chips of about the same capabilities. Do the Nouveau drivers offer 3D performance and how well would KDE Linux handle the Intel graphics and NVIDIA card being enabled at the same time, I had tried Kubuntu briefly and the Intel was in use most of the time I think and the NVIDIA kicked for games, I’m not sure? Since I’m not a gamer, does it make sense for me to bother enabling the NVIDIA card since I’m perfectly happy with the Intel built in graphics?
If it works, then it works, so I see no reason to mess with it. So I would leave it as is if you’re happy with it.
Right, yeah NVIDIA had the open source kernel modules, but then put all the important stuff in the GSP firmware on the cards. I guess I was thinking about the modern proprietary NVIDIA drivers, which are loaded as as a separate module I think…?
Primarily use AMD CPU’s with Nvidia GPU’s and Thunderbolt displays.
For example, here is my main computer:
Framework 16 Laptop 2nd Generation
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.12-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 890M Graphics
Manufacturer: Framework
Product Name: Laptop 16 (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series)
System Version: A9
I purchased the GMKtec Nucbox K7 Plus - specifically for hosting my plex server, with the hope that it could also be my main desktop. I am very happy to report that there are zero performance issues with either Plex or as my desktop.
The only issue I had was some overheating due to a 2nd 4tb SSD that I needed to put a heat-sink on - which seems to have resolved the issue.
Processors: 16 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13620H
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics
Manufacturer: GMKtec
Product Name: NucBox K7 PLUS
System Version: V1.0
Yeah those modern high speed SSDs run hot.
Framework 12 (i5-1334U) - moved from kinoite (tried aurora and bazzite and custom ublue as well), only thing i’m missing is layering equivalent.
Things have come full circle now.
Hi,
Laptop hardware here
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.73+deb13-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15,3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics
Manufacturer: Notebook
Product Name: NJ50_70CU
Support for the Nvidia proprietary driver for the GTX 1050 is active.
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04
Kernel Version: 6.8
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel Xeon E3 1270 V3
Memory: 12 Gb of RAM
Graphics Processor: Nvidía GT 740 2G GDDR5
Kdenlive: 21.12.3
I have to use these versions of Linux and Kdenlive because the Nvidia driver is no longer supported.
Could you share some details?
Sorry, I thought I was posting in the Kdenlive software subforum.
The proprietary Nvidia driver for the GTX 10 series will work in Gnome, but it doesn’t seem to work in KDE, according to what I read in this thread.
This thread was originally about what computers people are running the KDE-Linux Operating system on, but I think people got confused, and thought it was about what computers people had that ran KDE as their desktop on any Linux distro.
I built this machine back in September of 2021. Originally it had an nVidia 3070 Ti GPU, but I’ve upgraded it a couple of times since then. And, back then I ran Windows 10, not Fedora – I just upgraded to Fedora this past December. The rest of the machine is the original build, though.
I would like to eventually install it on my dekstop PC with old nvidia card. I’m curious if installing proprietary drivers instead of nouveau is/would ever be possible though.
Running CachyOS on an old laptop, to get a feel for it (do I swap my main PC, a dual booted Win10/Kubuntu out for Win10/CachyOS? maybe not):
The problem is the name KDE Linux, or KDE-Linux is easily mistaken for just KDE, it seems. Understandable.
