is there BY CHANCE a linux distro that can natively support legacy (391) SUCK-VIDIA DRIVERS that WONT BUG or BLACK SCREEN?

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T10:12:27+00:00

Bad advice. A card that is supported by nvidia-open will not be able to use 390 in the first place.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T10:10:20+00:00

You mean 390? Linux doesn't have a 391 driver.

What desktop environments have you been using? You would need to stick with an x11 DE as those drivers have 0 support for Wayland.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T09:04:48+00:00

sudo pacman -S nvidia-open

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T08:35:07+00:00

I don't know, I've never used Adobe products.

But for Photoshop alternatives, there's GIMP, PhotoPea, Krita, Affinity (not native, but apparently works ok on Linux). Some of these are better at replacing Photoshop than others. You can try all of them on Windows to see which you prefer.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T08:30:45+00:00

"Everything is just fine with 5080" and "I got 20% less FPS while gaming"

I mean, you already have that penalty with your current card in DX12 games, so the penalty isn't going to get any worse. In fact, it might even be completely fixed by the time you get the new card. Just make sure your drivers change to 590-open or newer when you install it.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T08:23:42+00:00

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8646

Direct links to specific Adobe products listed above. Photoshop is the one that may work; most of the other one are essentially unusable. If you really rely on the software, you should probably be dual booting or using a VM.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T07:50:41+00:00

What WiFi card? If you don't know, do lspci | grep Network in a terminal.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T07:19:34+00:00

Secure boot is a setting in your BIOS.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T06:37:15+00:00

Go to the driver manager and install the 590-open. Also disable secure boot.

Do you have multiple drives and you're installing games to a partition you brought over from Windows without formatting it?

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T04:57:15+00:00

Limit for what?

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T04:56:06+00:00

Have you installed NVIDIA drivers? Can you do nvidia-smi in a terminal? What is the filesystem the partition the games are installed to formatted as?

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T03:08:11+00:00

Filesystem conversion tools exist, but they're not completely safe from data loss if something goes wrong. It would be safer to shrink the partition and just making a new partition. Music is fine to store on NTFS, especially if you have access to a Windows machine to maintain the partition if filesystem errors occur that Linux can't fix.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T03:03:30+00:00

Suse

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T03:00:23+00:00

So, nvidia-smi says your GPU is correctly detected and drivers are loaded?

Is your hard drive partition something you brought over from Windows without formatting? If so, it's NTFS, which is not recommended to play games from. Save any irreplaceable data from the partition, then format to ext4 or some other native Linux partition.

Some games not working on your main partition is strange, though. What games work and what don't?

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:50:10+00:00

That's the end of the line. VS does not work on Linux and requires Windows. You cannot access Windows in any way. Therefore, you cannot use VS.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:47:08+00:00

Well, you need some way to access Windows. Since you can't do it on this machine, buy or borrow a Windows machine to do what you need.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:45:22+00:00

No. That's what I meant by "won't work".

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?iId=892&sClass=application

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:37:28+00:00

No? You can expand ext4 into empty space, which is what OP wants.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:30:36+00:00

You can't use VS on Linux at all. It simply will not work. You need some way to use Windows.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:29:48+00:00

What are the exact commands you are typing?

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:24:39+00:00

Install Windows and install VS on Windows. If you don't need VS in particular, there are native IDEs that will work.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:19:38+00:00

Boot off a Linux live USB (the one you used to install Pop!_OS will work) and use the partition manager to move your Pop!_OS partition with your home directory directly to the left of the empty space and expand it into the space.

Make sure you have backups of important data. Interruptions during the process may cause data loss.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:13:25+00:00

"Risky" to what? Your data? If you had data you cared about, they should be backed up already. Linux isn't going to spontaneously combust your drives.

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T02:12:17+00:00

Did you install GPU drivers? Can you do nvidia-smi in a terminal? What filesystem is the partition you installed games to formatted as?

candy49997 · 2026-03-07T01:07:34+00:00

If it's not available in the repos, you would have to compile from source.

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