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I use Linux Mint and Nvidea and never had any problem what so ever with it. But maybe i just have been lucky.
Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I've looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it's probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it's fixed (it's getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).
After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+ then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.
Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking "yo yur dumb just do this", but honest it's not a big deal for me anymore.
Oh wait I wanna add that apart from this (tiny in my opinion) bug, everything esle has been smooth, even some gaming (it's possible im in a rare state to be getting this bug since I haven't reinstalled my root partition in like 5+ years, even tho I have swapped distros a couple times).
Possibly not a "solution" (or workaround rather) you want, but... I just switch all that stuff off.
The cool thing about Linux and FOSS is "many eyes make all bugs shallow", and so if you search for the issue, someone else may have already reported it, in the community, or even in the issue tracker, and if not, you can do that, to help others, and then the developers (which can be anyone, even you, btw) can have a better handle on how to mend it.
Every problem, an opportunity, to give back. That's how we got here, in these 4 decades since Richard Stallman announced the start of the GNU project.
What stuff do you switch off? (Did you have this bug previously?)
I tried researching this issue a while ago, it was hard to find anything, but it's not a bug worth spending any more time on unfortunately since it's an easy fix whenever it happens.
Wish I was smart enough to contribute hehe, sadly don't even have the time anyways to sit down and figure it out (someone might already be figuring it out, it's slowly getting rarer and rarer that the bug occurs, still at least one every other day, though much better than the at least multiple times a day from before).
It's not, I have something very similar and I have a Radeon.
Oh interesting, I guess a general bug then.
This is over many years so memory might be bad, but I never had this on my old rx 580, then started getting it sometime after swapping to an nvidia gpu. Guess it was just coincidence, if I'm remembering it right anyways. That always fueled my suspicion it was nvidia.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it's eye opening. I guess I have no problems specific to nvidia then (pre and post open source driver).
p.s. if you have ever looked into this, do you have something you blame?
I poked around the Net a bit here and there, tried a couple different solutions people suggested, but the only thing I managed to change was that the moment I clicked "Sleep", the image on my monitors would completely freeze (as in: screens on, desktop and applications on full display), and the only solution was to do a hard reboot.
So, basically, I just stopped clicking "Sleep"... :D
Lol thats a good solution.
I haven't seen anything like that happen to me luckily, I can sleep fine, but on wake it's a black screen with my cursor (luckily² this is recoverable without rebooting).
Probably not even mint-specific since it happens on pop os too
I had that on Kubuntu, Tuxedo OS and now I have it on Garuda Linux, so yeah.