Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I have an RTX4090 that I use for my AI workload, so cannot really get rid of it.
That would drive me nuts too ... maybe even enough to throw 10 pro on it and lock it down - dual boot.
There's got to be a way to manually install the driver, then lock it down without updating.
I ran into some of this via their auto updater game ready bs - took forever just to roll it back and get it right so i could work in Win10.
Now, I avoid all auto installation and Nvidia's utilities & just pull down the driver directly/manually and install. Not sure if you're able to do that or not.
It seems to be an ongoing and prevalent issue...note time stamps
Last time I was using Windows 10, I could only set it to not do update for 2 weeks or so max. Alteast on my Ubuntu, I can disable most updates.
On the whole, Linux is far better for me than both Windows and Mac - I run all my VMs on them, and the kvm beats the crap out of HyperV and VMWare any day, and I can automate everything as I want.
The problem I am facing is not really auto installation it looks like. It seems like the nvidia modules are compiled into the kernel or something. I might have to rebuild a custom kernel.
Ubuntu is a shit OS, with forced snaps packages. I recommend something like Arch (Or any Arch-based like EndeavourOs or CachyOs) or Fedora.
Okay I really owe you a thank you, fren! You got me off my butt and do what I have been meaning to do for 2 years. I finally installed EndOS on my physical machine, migrated all my stuff and installed everything I use - including all my AI workloads, KVM environment and dev stuff, and everything working impeccably.
Its blazing fast, has a very crisp feel (I keep opening and closing windows for no reason at all) and so far, no kind of freezing. I can use the nouveau driver and still install the GPU Nvidia drivers. Gotta wait for a few days to know if it indeed is behaving. The final test would be to plug in my Mellanox card and see if it can work with it.
Honestly, the installation was much easier than expected. Just needed to do manual partitioning which was expected. Also, it gave an option to install boot loader into EFI directly without the grub (hate grub) and it works beautifully. All Linux distros should do the same then they would play nice with Windows.
Yeah i am realising that! I started using Ubuntu since most of my clients preferred Ubuntu but by Gawd it is crap.
Which do you suggest if i am looking for stability and maximum hardware compatibility with a reasonably decent automated installation?
Winaero Tweaker is the absolute bomb for ANY version of 10 that you want to lock down. It absolutely will not allow windows update to do squat - and has many options just for windows update, but also a lot of other things they obscured, hid or otherwise messed up so you can't use YOUR PC like a true power user... It'll even lock down Win10 Home, which is way worse than 10 Pro for updates...