If you are a laptop user, you may want to avoid driver version 550 because there is a megathread on the NVIDIA forum where users are reporting that this version is making their distributions randomly crash.
  • Lojcs@lemm.ee
    18·
    6 months ago

    550 is the stable driver… This only started happening in a new kernel version and iirc from some thread it is a bug in the kernel. If you don’t have the issue already just not updating kernel until this gets fixed would be enough

  • redxef@feddit.de
    13·
    6 months ago

    I’m not sure why they specifically say laptop, and then don’t mention what’s different to a desktop PC.

    Then you click on the linked NVIDIA article and the first comment says, that it also happens on their desktop.

  • tailgatebbqdisaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Hmm I’m on a HP Omen 15 running Pop!_OS and I’ve found 550 pretty stable. Seems a bit alarmist to say avoid 550 on all laptops, even if there are reported issues.

  • Bulletdust@lemmy.ml
    4·
    6 months ago

    One of the biggest problems regarding Nvidia drivers is the fact that a small minority install them using Nvidia’s .run script, which overwrites important libraries, resulting in a wide range of issues. I’ve always installed Nvidia drivers using my distro’s package manager and I’ve never had an issue.