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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/DieHause on 2025-06-23 18:31:21+00:00.

Hey, everyone. With the end of Windows 10 support around the corner and Windows 11's incompatibility with my main rig on account of no TPM chip (alongside just being generally horrible in a lot of ways), I'm fleeing the sinking ship and want to move to Linux fully very soon. And by "very soon", I mean today, after I'm done making back-ups of my important data on an external drive.

I do have previous Linux experience. The terminal, ricing tiling window managers, the works. In fact, I jumped in at the deep end (Manjaro and then Artix) a few years ago and they left me a little traumatized. I was dual-booting on my main rig as well as using them on a Thinkpad T420 and quickly found that DBing was a huge stability risk. Both ended up nuking themselves after running mundane updates, and the same thing eventually happened to my Thinkpad's Artix install, too. I had the true Arch Experience™️ and retreated back to Windows for a while.

Recently, I needed my Thinkpad back in working order, so I decided to check out Fedora and have been having a great time of it. Impressively sleek and professional (GNOME is a little rigid for my taste, but nothing a little tweaking can't fix) and I've run a bunch of updates and had no issues. What a concept! Due to the fact that Fedora is far more stable than Arch but also receives updates at a good pace, I figured it'd be a perfect fit for my main rig, which I primarily use for gaming.

However, one main thing is making me nervous: NVIDIA GPU compatibility. My main rig is running a RTX 2070 Super GPU. It's an old pre-built and I am unfortunately dead broke at the moment, which means replacing with an AMD GPU isn't on the cards. Whenever I look up "NVIDIA" on this sub, there's a million horror stories of people with catastrophic visual bugs, Fedora not detecting the card, Wayland and GNOME breaking while using the card, drivers breaking after running updates through Discovery and not waiting long enough to reboot, issues with secure boot, etc. etc. My understanding is that WS 42 has made the process significantly easier but that it can still be a pain.

My question is: how painless is it to run Fedora on a system with an NVIDIA GPU nowadays? Anything I should keep in mind? Compatibility errors with this hardware in particular, etc.? My main rig has had Secure Boot turned off since I installed Manjaro. Is the Discovery update breaking drivers issue still a thing? I'd love for things to Just Work™️, of course. User testimony or any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!