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I hate to be the jerk but it's because you got Nvidia. Intel and AMD cards enjoy significantly better graphics card support.
I would also try a different distribution that's known for having more recent kernels and faster development. Something like Manjaro is actually a pretty good fit for this situation.
No its not. The nvidia 5070 works on linux and has for a while now.
We really need to avoid just suggesting a different distro as the solution. In this case it makes no sense, they're running kernel 6.14 and the Nvidia driver is out of kernel. Phoronix benchmarked the 5070 running an older version of ubuntu and still got good performance and it worked well. That means their version of ubuntu which is new enough to support it. Im not sure what the issue is but I think switching distro's is a last resort once you've tried everything else.
I completely disagree with all your reasons but im sick of arguing this. My answer is the same as previous comments. Ubuntu works with this hardware and its up to date thus distro is not the issue.
Great but it's not working out of the box and clearly that was the expectation.
AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.
Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.
Sure you can fix it but again the out of the box expectation.
We can agree that it should work and can work and I don't disagree that always suggestions a different distribution is not generally helpful but watching people suffer trying to get Ubuntu working is a sore spot for me.
Its not an out of the box installation. He has an existing ubuntu installation and is upgrading the GPU. We can always be like oh you ran into a single issue, just get rid of your hardware and swap to an entirely new distro. Thats a worst case solution to the problem.
Doesnt matter, he isnt asking about an AMD card.
Its actually the opposite, ubuntu generally has very good hardware support. Cannonical work with vendors to test hardware works on their platform. The 5070 phronix benchmarks were done on ubuntu. Suggesting its a distro issue is ignoring the problem
"it works on Linux" isn't black and white. My 2070 would not work with freerdp in full screen and nouveau drivers. It works with Nvidia drivers, though.
I don't take any offense to that. If I can't get the 5070 to work I'll see if I can take it back and get something from AMD or Intel.
I would live boot or install side by side another more modern distro before dumping the card. It's a fine card it just requires effort to get working unlike AMD/Intel.
My 4070 ti has worked flawlessly with Linux mint
Good to know that your different distribution works well with your different GPU.
Its helpful to know that nvidia can work well with Linux.
4070 Mint Mate 22.1 here and have had no issues with that or my 1050ti cards. Nvidia has had strides in linux compatibility the past 10 years or so.