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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.

My bad, I got it from this website and assumed it was correct. https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-released-with-bug-fixes-and-security-updates/

Can you run Journalctl and take a look at the logs from one of the boots with the 5070? You can use journalctl -b -0 for current boot -1 for the previous boot -2 for two boots ago etc. -p 0…2 to limit the output to events from critical to severe priority.

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.

AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.

Doesnt matter, he isnt asking about an AMD card.

Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.

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

I hate to be the jerk but it’s because you got Nvidia

No its not. The nvidia 5070 works on linux and has for a while now.

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.

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.

Can you run nvidia-smi and confirm you’re on the 570 driver?

Also after you do a failed boot with the 5070 put the 2070 back in and try run this command journalctl -b -1 -p 0..2 to check the log from the previous boot and filter for only high priority issues. This should give some insight on whats failing when you try and boot with the 5070.

Another dumb check but have you got the display cables plugged into the gpu?

24.10 is a minimum. If you’re on 24.04 that means you are very up to date and have the 6.14 kernel which is new enough. So we can rule that out as an issue.

If you have at least Ubuntu 24.10 and the NVIDIA 570.133.07 driver installed with the 2070, it should be plug and play with the new card.

If you put the 2070 in are you able to get a working system?

zero intergration? Thats just wrong. I’d argue you can do anything with PS on linux that you can with bash.

Anything suspect in the journald logs?

You can write a script to periodically check the installed packages and update the 1st script. Its basically the output of “dnf list installed”

Well done, happy to hear that you managed to fix it.

thats fine you can write a new one. Check the output of blkid or some command that lists drives. Then take a look at an example fstab config and copy it. If you can install genfstab from github that would be nice but idk if that cna be done from emergency shell.

After fstabs rebuilt try restarting

can you post the config from /etc/fstab

If you have a usb with another distro (not arch) you can plug it in and boot into the live environment. Then from there you can look at the filesystem on your other drives. Or you can do it from the emergency shell whichever you prefer.

I’m installing snap on fedora to spite you.

Oh no 1gb of space is being used windows users totally care about that as they go from an OS that out of the box takes 100gb to one that takes 30gb. Thats pretending what you said is true because Snap doesnt store 5 versions by default it stores two. Secondly the common runtimes are shared between applications and versions so the amount of extra space when storing multiple versions is minor also distro packaging also stores multiple versions by default 3 if I recall correctly for dnf.

I think the fact that you think a win10 user cares more about an app taking a few seconds longer to open on first load than their GPU driver being unstable(from a new user perspective) is everything. Yes! the driver is nvidia’s fault but its also fedora intentionally choosing to not ship it out of the box. Many other distro’s do this so nvidia users dont have to go through the hassle of foss drivers and them breaking every kernel update.

Also I dont blame fedora for this, fedora doesnt target new users and as a fedora user I like that they aim to ship a fully foss system and I think they make it easy to include properitary packages if thats something you want. However its pointless to point someone to a distro where you have to then give them a bunch of extra steps to enable basic functionality when there are plenty of distros that work out of the box.

For a new user one of the ublue spins is a good choice. They get the base fedora experience with nvidia gpu’s sorted out of the box and flatpak.

No one switching from win10 is going to notice the package being a few MBs larger. For opening speed I think taking a few more seconds to open is a tiny price to pay compared with the extra setup work that is required on Fedora. Look if Fedora shipped with the proprietary repo’s enabled and Nvidia driver preconfigured id recommend it to new usres but until then its just to much for new users to enable proprietary repos and setup their nvidia drivers.

I’m a Fedora user but I prefer to point new people to Ubuntu over fedora. The snap v flatpak debate is irrelevant to new users compared to fedora not shipping proprietary gpu drivers out of the box which causes so many problems for nvidia users. Kernel updates often end up braking their gpu driver.

If you fix linux machines at work, go with fedora or nobara(fedora with gaming tweaks applied). This is because it ships a modern linux software stack with sane defaults (bazzite is fedora with patches applied). Bazzite is smooth sailing until you need to do something not in flatpak or bazzite scripts (which you might never do) then you need to learn a new way to do it.

The reason I think you should choose Fedora over bazzite is because you likely already know how to do things generally on linux and if you switch you Bazzite you’ll need to learn a completely new way.

Fedora only ships with only foss software so you do need to enable a few repo’s and install the nvidia driver but after this it should be smooth sailing.