Hello, comrades. I come to you seeking help. Recently, my young sister decides she would like to install Linux. Good brother that I am, I want to help her.
Here’s the kicker. Her PC has a GTX 770. The newest driver for such a card is #470 according to Ubuntu-derived systems. Alas, almost every “normal person” distro uses Wayland now, and Wayland doesn’t support such an old driver. I am not going to install Arch on a 10-year-old’s PC, btw.
What are some good distros I can install on her PC so that neither I nor her have to have a headache getting Wayland out and X11 in?
Thank you, friends.
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Mint still defaults to X. Wayland is only in experimental support on it.
I think that that is what I’ll go with. When I was just moving from Windows it was what I used too.
Thank you.
OpenSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed have nVidia drivers right from nvidias own repo. it still works with my 2013 ish K2000 CAD card
Aight
If you ever need the nvidia repo locations
I noticed fedora comes with OOTB X11 DEs for gnome shell and legacy - it’s just not the first choice in the list.
There is the plan to remove the X11 gnome session in a coming release. Not sure if it is the next and as far as I know, this will not affect KDE (for now).
Thanks, man.
Alas, almost every “normal person” distro uses Wayland now
It’s your computer. Put a different DE or just a different compositor on it. They all still work fine with X.
Fair enough. That being said, I learned of this incompatibility after I installed a driver and messed things up. I think it would be faster to install a distro that works fine out of the box instead of reinstalling that same distro and wasting more of my sister’s time.
Cheers!
Fair enough, I know Manjaro and EndeavorOS both ship with KDE and the option to use X11 or Wayland. I’d assume Debian defaults to X11.
