This is just terrible. This means more lighting artifacting, as it's bad enough with dark areas having lines or arc of color in the background when a scene gets lit up under low light, especially noticeable in YouTube videos after YouTube's compression and the horrible VP9 codec has been added. After five years of having my 32" curved 2560x1440 monitors I have managed to remove the light arc, by adjusting my monitor's hidden contrast settings, which acts a bit like Vignette, but not so aggressive. The shots of Grace from Requiem is just too far in my opinion. NVIDIA may as well go the whole hog and say bye, bye Computer graphics get real humans on screen, with real human zombies and tons of real blood and gore. Players will be so scared, they'll be throwing up everywhere. Not to mention even more power coming from the wall, plus game will either bottleneck or lose FPS with this added AI Mask over the top. So glad I'm running a 4060 Ti with 16GB of rammage and 32GB on board Ram. No way I'm upgrading to a 5080 or 5090, as in my opinion NVIDIA should be concentrating going back to 8pin power for their cards, not relying on this 12pin all the time, as so many people are still having their connectors melting. Yes I know it can happen with 8pin as well, but at least 8pin is more reliable.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off. Attempting to drop back down to the (known working) 570 drivers left me in "broken computer hell", booting to a black screen, which took a couple of days to fix. Grr. I am loathe to try the new 580 drivers as it's probably still the case that XFCE is broken.

I will probably have to accept that Mint really wants me to use Cinnamon instead, which I suppose is no great hardship.

I am running Linux Mint 22 XFCE with the 580 series driver. I haven't experienced the problems you've described. I'm on an older GPU, however. I also run at a resolution of no more than 1920x1080 (usually 1440x810 in game). Perhaps that accounts for the difference.

Maybe try @clatterfordslim's suggestion? Might work with the 580 series driver as well.

Quoting: jkaart

Quoting: clatterfordslim

Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off.

You have to turn the inbuilt v_blank off inside of xfwm to fix the screen flickering, after installing the newish 590.48.01 driver.
Here is the fix, unless you already know then ignore.
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s off
Then reboot your system. Switch on Pipeline Composition in NVIDIA-Settings and you won't have any more problems.

Have you give any source for this fix?

Originally Leo the AI companion in Brave-Browser came up with it, but here is where he got it from.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311088 [External Link]

Scroll down the page you'll see someone had posted the solution. It worked for me too and have no more screen flickering.

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Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off.

You have to turn the inbuilt v_blank off inside of xfwm to fix the screen flickering, after installing the newish 590.48.01 driver.
Here is the fix, unless you already know then ignore.
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s off
Then reboot your system. Switch on Pipeline Composition in NVIDIA-Settings and you won't have any more problems.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: amataiShouldn't we call it WFCE then ?

No, because the X in Xfce doesn't stand for X11. Or anything else. It's just a name that looks a lot like an acronym, for historical reasons.

It was Xellent Friggin Cool Desktop Environment.
I did not want to swear, so changed it to Friggin instead.
And boy it still lives up to it's name.
Every time I switch my computer on, I know I'm in for a good time.

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Quoting: CaldathrasAnd I've been holding off on 580.126.09 because someone here mentioned problems with XFCE.

Yes it was me I think. Screen flickering in Xfce and Cinnamon. To fix screen flickering, make sure you setup composition pipeline in Nvidia Settings.
Next put this command into your terminal and reboot.
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/vblank_mode -s off
What this command does is switch off vblank in Xfwm4.
That is why the screen and opened apps start flickering, vblank needs to be switched off. Once rebooted Flickering gone forever.

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I upgraded to this 580.126.09 driver in Linux Mint 22.2 Zara Xfce Edition and it does exactly the same as what the 590 drivers does in Cachy OS Xfce Edition. Terminal and anything else open, starts flickering on and off like a lightbulb. Everything has now been concentrated onto Wayland, including NVIDIA drivers in my opinion.

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Quoting: Carolly

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrhea¨gaming optimized distros" are the dumbest thing ever, hobby projects that do not contribute anything upstream and do not teach their users anything.
But they are always fast and efficient when they have to setup their patreon...

Because nobody at all uses Proton-GE patches or Cachy kernel optimizations amirite?

I use ProtonUp and CachyOS proton version, have not figured out how to configure Cachy OS game-tuned Kernels to run on a Ubuntu based Distro. I used Cachy OS Xfce Edition, but NVIDIA drivers mucked it up, leaving me with opened Windows Terminal, Brave-Browser, Steam flickering on and off like a lightbulb. So thought screw it, go back to the drawing board and try Mint Xfce out for gaming on. Would love to get Cachy OS's tuned Kernels going though. Games would flow better.

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I've just setup Linux Mint Xfce Edition for gaming through Steam, with a low latency Kernel, plus uninstalled stuff I don't need, like Linux Mint themes and their icon themes, because I have my own dedicated theme for Xfce. I'm dual booting with Xubuntu 24.04 and am going to install Flatpaks on it, getting rid of Snapd altogether. All that Xubuntu will be for is playing my PlayStation 2 games, that I turned into ISO's for PCSX2 to read. You can game on any Linux Distro, just make sure your hardware is up to it. To play triple A games, like The Last of Us Part 1 and 2 which both had a really bad port to PC. You need hardware wise Processor with eight cores sixteen threads, 32GB of Rammage and a dedicated NVIDIA or AMD card with 16GB or more of VRAM. The Last of Us ports were really bad though and unfortunately they do not run very well in Proton, even at low settings because these ports were rushed in my opinion. Yet any other PlayStation ported game runs really well in Proton. I'm waiting for the day when there will only be one proton version to cover everything, no matter what hardware.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeAh, Log back into X11 and hope next month brings undocumented but welcome improvements :D

I have just upgraded to Cachy OS Xfce Edition, through out my system, so have two Cachy OS Xfce Editions running. One for gaming and the other for everyday tasks and video rendering through Davinci Resolve. Updated to this driver yesterday and now have to live without compositing, because Xfce Terminal keeps flashing and panels keep flashing the app icons that are on the panel. They concentrated more on Wayland this time round it seems. I'm not moving to Wayland until every environment has it and proves to run properly without any glitches. I hope NVIDIA get this fixed, as don't want to have to downgrade driver.

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I'm interested on your feedback, cause I need a new updated distro and I'm hesitating with the same 3 distro you use. Did you have any issue with any of those?
I was very happy with xubuntu back in the days, and also with mint ^^ I'm looking into CachyOS for the gaming optimisation, but I also enjoy the ease of use from Mint, and the lightweight approach of Xubuntu as well as it's simple and customizable UI.

I customise the hell out of Xubuntu, remove Snapd altogether. I have my own dedicated theme for it Orchis-Grey-Dark and Sardi-Ghost-Flexible icons. It took me three or so years to find the perfect theme, not just for Xfce but for other Environments too. Linux Mint I always delete their themes and icon themes, as they have horrible undershoot lines in their themes and it makes the experience, well for me unbearable.

I use mint for Davinci Resolve and as my everyday OS at the moment, but am thinking about moving onto MX-Linux Xfce, as just got myself a AMD RX 9060 XT with 16GB of VRAM. When it comes to Linux, depends on your use case. I have three dedicated gaming PC's, all with RYZEN 5700x eight cores sixteen threads, more than enough oomph to play the latest games, my chosen card for gaming is NVIDIA 4060 TI with 16GB of VRAM. The reason why I got the AMD 9060 was because got fed up with Ubuntu 24.04 based Distros, including Mint and Xubuntu having to go into safe graphics on installation, reminding me of the good old Ubuntu Gnome 2 days of old, when NVIDIA drivers were a pain to install, especially on a cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor, the resolution would go up to 800x600 leaving you having to count the amount of times you pressed the tab button to set the correct resolution of 1024x768. Although these days with bigger and lighter monitors, when in safe graphic mode on installation, 1024x768 does display correctly, although everything larger than life.

Cachy OS Xfce version is really good, because you can pick out on the installation screen in Calamares what you want installed. I go for the minimalist as I can, still leaving Cachy OS's settings, but not installing their themes, as I use my own.

The only gripe I have had with Cachy OS is their update notification, which you can enable to be present on the panel like Mint's one but faster. It started updating from the AUR instead of just from Cachy OS repositories. Can easily reinstall and not enable the update notification, as just use terminal. I always set the terminal in Cachy back to bash, as I find Fish a funny little creature, plus used to bash, as that is where all my Terminal Alias commands are written for. Arch and Debian based systems.

The rules in Arch are weird, as I can in a Debian based Distro uninstall Thunar and have Nemo as my default, but in Arch no, but can set Nemo as default. Another gripe is opening internal storage drives, always asks for permission, but never on a external drive. Surely an external drive should have permissions to open as well? Internal drives should not need permissions, as obviously they are internal, but the problem is, is that Arch sees internal drives as a threat.

So what sort of Linux are you after? Light weight, lots of screen effects, bloated out ones???

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