Be pragmatic, use the binaries provided by nvidia and not the ones provided by Ubuntu.

Or use Suse, only distro that manages that well. Forget PopOS. Really, either binaries or Suse.

If someone else here is entrenched on Arch, do this: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all

If on Fedora, just use the binaries... trust me.

Hope this helps someone.

In my experience Ubuntu has the worst issues with displays of any distro.

To be fair I stay away from NVIDIA to, I would probably run a separate headless box for those GPU workloads if I needed to

Yeah, Ubuntu used to be the distro that "just worked" while nowadays that crown has passed to Fedora.

> In my experience Ubuntu has the worst issues with displays of any distro.

In my experience, it has zero issues. I use nvidia binary build. I have since 2006 through various nvidia GPU's.

Install Pop_OS! for better OOTB NVIDIA support.

Try a lower version of the Nvidia driver. The newer version was causing me and folk I work with a lot of problems.

This has been a pain point for us and our development process… not all versions of Nvidia drivers are the same… even released ones. You have to find a “good” version and keep to it, and then selectively upgrade… at least this has been the case the last 5 years, folks shout out if they have had different experiences.

Side note: our main use case is using cuda for image processing.

Make sure your device is compatible with WSL this way, its very fragile and prone to breaking