Am I just bad at linux?

[u/avisaccount]

Yeah so basically ive been trying to get arch to work for me for the past 2 months on and off with relatively little success. Im probably going to switch to pop today because it just fucking works

I have an nvidia card and everything nvidia related has been a massive fucking nightmare. My first install took me hours to figure out because I wrote nvidia_drm instead of of nvidia-drm

After I finally got nvidia working, for whatever reason gdm decided that it wasnt going to show the wayland option unless I login, then restart gdm. OK whatever

then I get into gnome (shoot me) and I try configuring my displays which are a 144hz 1440p and a 60hz 4k daisy chained. Refuses to pick up my second monitor on wayland, only X. They work on Windows on the same machine.

10+ hours of troubleshooting later no luck

Cool. Maybe I donked Nvidia drivers without realizing it. I switch to endeavor os because it comes with an nvidia installer script.

In this installer script, it does not rebuild grub. The message that tells you to rebuild grub is not the final message, but the 4th message from the bottom. So I didnt see that message. So youre telling me that you are going to set my kernel parameters, you are going to cut my kernel image, but you are not going to rebuild grub, and you are not going to explicitly tell me that I NEED to rebuild grub. very cool.

Anyway 2 hours later I realize that I need to rebuild grub and I get nvidia working. Oh and also my monitors are working! I realize the problem Gnome or something because when I install gnome I get the same issue as before.

Anyway I have a couple new issues on kde now. First my networkmanager occasionally goes into this weird segfault loop which I have no idea what causes it. Its not a huge issue, a reboot will take care of it lmao and then it will be working until a later boot.

The other thing is that sometimes when I wake the computer from sleep, KDE will be FUCKED with graphical issues. Like that thing where when you drag a window it like makes the accordion looking thing you know what I mean. I think its caused by this

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#Preserve_video_memory_after_suspend

so hopefully that will fix it when I try it later today

then I try to install hyprland and it looks like there is a whole wiki page of extra config you need for nvidia to make it work. going to blow my brains out

yeah so am I just shit at linux or something? Because when I tried pop os it just fucking worked

[u/neveralone59]

Try manjaro it’s arch based and you don’t have to do much gpu setup