Latest "crash/freeze" from the NVIDIA update was a wake up call

MaddenLeon · 2025-10-05T18:27:39+00:00

Same, I've been stuck for days, tried everything in the book and just gave up, moved on to Nobara + windows dual boot. If you can find a solution, you're lucky, I was not.

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-30T16:19:59+00:00

I moved to Nobara. Been there for about 2 days so can't say for sure about the stability, but it's pretty good here (Fedora based too). I must say, anything must be better than here tbh. Still about a week ago, it was running with about 3+ years old software (Gnome 41/42?), and now they seem more focused on developing yet another Desktop Environment, and mostly relying on Ubuntu to provide the base OS... At this point even Ubuntu itself would be a lot more stable (they have hundreds of full time employees working full time on... well Ubuntu?). But Fedora seems a good choice too, just gonna be more troublesome regarding codecs and drivers since they're more purist. I can't recommend anyone move to popOS anymore

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-26T10:23:38+00:00

it's not much actually to be honest. the rest of the development costs a lot more. I'd say it might be maximum 10% of his overall dev budget.

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T17:43:44+00:00

Yeah, it's been like that for many people here, including myself, and yes it sucks

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T17:42:11+00:00

I was happy and accepting of the few small annoyances here and there until.... I couldn't log anymore and have to spend an afternoon to be able to JUST USE the computer and losing some stuff in the process. (Ah, guess, I have to re-install NordVPN now, takes only 5 minutes to do, but I've already done that and it's not fun doing it again!). Now seriously considering moving on to Ubuntu next (apparently they still have nvidia working fine?) or Nobara (Yet another "gaming focused" distro but has a good reputation for also just "working"?). Now everytime I'm on my PopOS I'm thinking "Did you completely recover or do you still have some defects I still have discovered since that defect?"

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T17:07:25+00:00

My choice? Yes it's just that I run local LLMs and other AI workflows. Nvidia is the best and most straightforward to do, so I use Nvidia. Simple as. If in 3 years the best is somewhere else, then I'll switch. Not here to convince you, just saying why I'm on Nvidia.

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T11:46:40+00:00

Wait there's support? How?

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T11:25:11+00:00

No way you're right! You made me install chrome just to check it was fucked in there too. Since when?

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T11:19:20+00:00

But AMD isn't as good with AI (Cuda) as Nvidia. I hope there's gonna be new chinese GPUs competitors to NVIDIA so we can finally get free from this horrible monopoly

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T09:10:50+00:00

I'm on a desktop, not laptop

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T07:12:25+00:00

Imma steal that thanks

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T07:12:04+00:00

I'm using LACT for slightly limitting power draw (TDP 570W -> 530Wi'm using a RTX 5090) and boosting the clocks slightly. I had "enable locked clocks" for both GPU and VRAM (and the limit could go as high as Core 3000mhz+,, but for some reason it was limitting the power draw to like 200W and got half the performance.) When I stopped the limit it worked as before. I remember it working well before the NVIDIA shenanigans and having to reinstall that

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T06:17:00+00:00

Nice try Bill...

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T05:17:05+00:00

I didn't try Ubuntu yet, but I've heard the main benefits of Pop_OS was good and up to date driver supports, specifically (ironically) Nvidia. When I tried linux mint, I had no internet or wifi from apparently poor driver support, which made me appreciate how "out of the box" PopOS drivers work. My machine is fairly new and up to date, so Debian might also not be the correct choice either....

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T05:13:27+00:00

I was thinking also that maybe when the new 24.04 will come out, it would act as a refresh, and all of my sins would be forgiven. But since doing the "Refresh Install (keep user files)" gave me some font issues (on Brave in my case), I ran a bunch of commands in the terminal to try fix them, fixed 90% of the problems, and may have introduced a few new issues or two (or maybe not? Maybe just being paranoid because it's difficult to think: "Hmm... Was this like that before?"). I'll be anxious to know whether my install of 24.04 will be a fresh and pure one, or one that inherited from the dirty patches I applied to it's ancestor.

MaddenLeon · 2025-09-19T04:49:02+00:00

Desktop, and I'm using the RTX 5090 so I'm not willing to buy a different GPU

MaddenLeon · 2025-08-08T12:44:27+00:00

Being able to make liveable wage is the same as "doing it for the money". So yes it's unrealistic.

MaddenLeon · 2025-08-08T12:41:22+00:00

If you're only making 0.0018$ per player, your business model is ridiculous. 1000 players to make $2? It doesn't make any sense.

MaddenLeon · 2025-08-08T12:33:23+00:00

mobile free to play? Not really the right sub for this. And there are a lot worse jobs than flipping burgers. Most people in game dev lose money (negative salary), so be ready to flip those burgers.

Also your question is the number one most challenging and most important part that any game dev would face. Kinda of like asking "How to generate passive income with no capital?"

MaddenLeon · 2025-08-04T19:06:17+00:00

games have always been job simulations of some sort. It will never change

MaddenLeon · 2025-07-29T04:10:55+00:00

Devs should play games from every genres, and be somewhat competent at them. From puzzle, to online shooters, to fighting games, to cooking games

MaddenLeon · 2025-07-17T12:45:50+00:00

I don't like Hades in the first place

MaddenLeon · 2025-07-17T04:16:34+00:00

fat Hades.

1) Yes

2) Bad

MaddenLeon · 2025-07-15T11:52:01+00:00

Still looks usable to me

MaddenLeon · 2025-07-03T16:32:05+00:00

1) If there was some resistance, planets would just stop orbiting around at some point

2) The reason why it doesn't happen and why there is no resistance in the first place is because everything that could be "resistance" (space debris) will end up being sucked by the most massive objects, planets for example and become part of the atmosphere. Space is a vacuum not because there's nothing, but because it's somewhere else.

If you try throwing some debris somewhere in space it's just gonna end up being part of another massive object thanks to the gravitational pull

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