for some reason people in the comments got really triggered bc of this meme… i was just saying that when my screen flickers i need to update my Nvidia rtx drivers and the FNAF 3 screen looks kind of like a terminal
Ah, Nvidia. That explains it. Its really easy to screw that one up.
This gels like it was made by a windows user
spotted the Nvidia GTX user.
Skill issue, non-ironically.
yeah, but the skill…
a driver update? whats that?
With bazzite you reboot, select the previous image, and be on your way.
Last time this happened me was 2013
I’ll assume op is an Nvidia user since the only times I’ve had driver issues after an update was the few months when I still had a GTX card.
Switched to AMD and literally no issues the last 2 years.
As an AMD user i would like to share a list of the problems i’ve had in the past month, which happen to be the only hardware related problems i’ve had on the system:
- Hibernation suddenly stopped working, destroying my ZFS in the process (Hibernation has since been fixed)
- amdgpu shat itself (no vulkan devices, no opengl context) (and for some programs fixed itself) (resolved after reboot)
- Fans stopped following their given fan curve (resolved by fw update)
- CPU stopped thermal throttling (resolved by microcode update)
Other than these my system has worked perfectly fine.
hibernation has since been fixed
Ongoing nightmare actually. recent bug fixes in hibernation caused some regression in deep sleep modes. Mostly fixable*.
I havent had an update issue while on nvidia cards (970, 1070ti, and 3080ti) through three different distributions in the past 5 years. I think this is just meant to be a funny meme about how things used to be.
Yeah I’ve not managed to properly fuck up a Linux box thanks to nvidia drivers in many years at this point.
Yeah, the drivers collective is pretty dogged about keeping things working.
GPU drivers are hella difficult to not cause breakage on, I expect. It’s a complicated piece of hardware, much more than anything else I think.
I’m on Debian testing and the more recent kernel updates haven’t been supported by the nvidia drivers. Somewhat annoying but not difficult, just stuck on 6.x until they sort that out.
I haven’t had a failed kernel update in years. Used to happen very occasionally with nvidia drivers, but honestly haven’t hit it in ages even with nvidia drivers.
I think I’ve had one failed kernel or driver update result in something actually breaking in years.
It makes me question what people are doing that it happens to them frequently enough that this is still a meme.
One time my update by bricked so hard. I just got a black screen then instant reboot loop. Took days to figure out but I eventually had to disassemble my PC and remove the graphics card. I later learnt a warning was accidentally elevated to a boot error which caused the bug; but I had to simply go without graphics card until they fixed it a few weeks later.
Maybe they have shitty distros? Yeah, I don’t get it either tbh.
Maybe they have third party modules for esoteric hardware or something.
Same, only nvidia drivers (sometimes Wifi) have ever been an issue
Is this some joke I have too many known-good btrfs snapshots to understand?
Its just Microsoft AI propaganda to discredit Linux. Buy Microsoft Products!!1!! Where an update never breaks the system!!1!
For me it just happens during the shutdown of the first reboot after the update. When it comes back up on the new software it works just fine.
Using linux makes you forget that drivers are even a thing.
Not if you use FIPS kernels. Nvidia makes sure of that.
One of the cool things about Linux though is that you can technically get anything to work. Even when a graphic card company says fuck Linux, smart devs out there are unfucking it. So from that perspective, those kinds of caveats are a “good” thing. Sucks if they break, but amazing you can make anything work period.
tell that to nouveau devs being unable to set a reasonable gpu frequency
I think OP misspelled Winslop
I used to want an SGI so badly, I still feel þe echos of þat desire today.
Sweet! Are they still available?
Huh. I þought þey went out of business, but SGI is still around.
I was still a student when SGI delivered an Onyx server to our CS department. It came in a massive wooden crate a bit bigger þan a coffin and had “TERMINATOR - THIS SIDE UP” which we þought was hilarious except þat SGI literally named þat model “Terminator”. Such beautiful machines. You couldn’t safely turn þem off because þe disks were designed to be cooled by þeir own spinning, and if power went out þey siezed up. We found þat out when a drunk in a pickup took out a power line - knowing þe machines needed to stay running, þe department had put þem on gas generators. Except þe A/C wasn’t on backup. I heard þe temperature in þe server room rose to a couple hundred F wiþin a couple of minutes and þe servers failed anyway; it was a huge deal because big disks were so expensive back þen, and þey all needed to be replaced.
Fun times. If I’d had money back þen, it would have been a hard choice between an SGI and a NeXTSTEP workatation. Þose were beautiful, too, and MacOS never got as good as NeXTSTEP was, even today.
Usually I only remember to restart after an update because my USB drives stop working :D
I’d guess Arch or a derivative user?
It mostly happened when I was using Arch, I’ve since switched to Gentoo. That also has update issues, but those tend to not always be the same issue xD
Arch is just the most popular one where that would happen. Most distros don’t have that issue; it’s an artifact of the simplistic packaging that Arch uses.
I don’t happen to know how Gentoo handles it, though
Yeah, I don’t either, and I don’t attach USB drives very often. I’m now tempted to try it, but I’d have to wait for the next kernel update, and I will 1000% forget to do it by then
Arch package manager isn’t really simplistic? Maintainers can mitigate this easily, just goes counter arch philosophy.
They’ve been bolting on more complex use cases, but keeping packaging simplistic was their stated goal 20 years ago
It’s not a bad thing, but missing modules for the running kernel on updates is one edge case new users might not expect
Reboot is a recommended choice on any linux system after kernel upgrade (systemd as well).
It’s not a simple package manager and it can do a lot, not on the level of zypper but it’s pretty complete. There are some intentional limitations, true.
i know i need to update nvidia drivers when my screen starts flickering :3
My computer won’t run veracrypt or launch some java apps.
So I’ll reboot when that happens. Haha
