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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

    I have that same card and just today tried installing the drivers for a fresh install of fedora atomic 40 (KDE). It went worse than I expected.

    (before I rant, note that I have a 21:9 monitor which maybe adds extra weirdness/uncommonness.)

    • installer was a black screen. No signal to monitor at all. Had to use “basic video mode” from GRUB.
    • after install, I updated the system. A reboot caused the resolution to drop extremely low with wrong aspect ratio and refresh rate. Almost unusable for navigating system menus. None of that could not be changed. It wasn’t an issue before the update.
    • you have to do a weird workaround to get rpm fusion repos on atomic. Fair enough and fedora docs got you covered. Doing this involves rebooting twice. That’s when I learned that every other reboot consistently would boot into a black screen. So 4-5 reboots later (and a few more to test my theory), I have the repo with nvidia drivers.
    • installed the driver only to realize that it will break the install if secure boot is enabled (atomic only issue, I think). System crashed and couldn’t be booted anymore. Results in a freeze that needs a hard reboot. Back to my old OS for now because I’m exhausted.

    I can’t believe GPU drivers can break secure boot in 2024. I’m sure there is a logical reason behind it, but I’m shocked that installing anything at all on top of an OS that already supports secure boot would break it. Maybe I’ll try Bazzite because I’m lazy and heard good things. At a glance it appears to be fedora atomic with nvidia drivers installed (amongst many other gaming related things I probably would install anyway eventually).