What Linux distro do you use with Comfy mostly? #8544
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I'm testing Mint right now. Kinda ok, it comes with Python 3.12 and Nvidia drivers, but pip restricted by PEP 668 and you will see
especially at every custom nodes/or update installation in ComfyUI Manager. (nothing of that in Zorin) Somehow it installs them and it can be ignored and resolved with flag, but very annoying. |
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Did you try Openmandriva? (Or any descendant of Mandrake) Like you I am not a fan of Gnome or Ubuntu, and would rather stick with a somewhat familiar distro. Mageia seems to be dying and researching the past few days I think Openmandriva might be the better choice anyway. Python 3.11.11 so not ideal, but possibly usable. Only cooker comes with an Nvidia driver pre-installed, but is possible to add one to stable. (Think I will need a legacy driver so having the latest pre-installed would not help me) Searched their forum and no mention of PEP 668, so perhaps this is good? And nice to see someone a bit smarter than me working on the same problem. |
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Maybe i'll try it. I really want to return to Zorin. Mint is fast but pip restrictions is such annoying that i can't stand anymore - everything in Comfy must be installed manually esp all requirements and updates. Also i wasn't able to install sage attention because it require older Cuda version than which i've had, maybe its incorrectly determining GPU processing power, anyway i'm without sage here, mostly everything else was installed including flash attention, but not sage. |
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I use Rocky Linux a derivative of RHEL. It's a pain to blacklist the Nouveau video driver so you can install the NVidia driver. You only have to do it once and you're good to go. |
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So, to try new Wan 2.2 by last 5 days i've tested the latest distributions released. But unfortunately there's a serious bug with sentencepiece wheel creation on latest Linuxes and ComfyUI manual install completely broken, not sure whats the problem, maybe with latest Python (problem already reported by other people in Open Issues). Python the latest 3.13, Nvidia drivers latest, CUDA 12.9-13. Looks like i will test Wan 2.2 only on older Linux. With that wheel bug starting ComfyUI without errors impossible, many modules missing, even if installing all them manually kinda ComfyUI starting but all nodes broken, even templates broken. |
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Arch is really good if you want up-to-date packages. It requires maybe a little more hands on maintenance than some other distros but it shouldn't be challenging for someone that's already fairly comfortable with Linux. I also really like it because it's not opinionated and will basically stay out of your face and let you do what you want, how you want. I've used it for a couple years now and I'm pretty happy. I switched from Ubuntu because it kept trying to force Snap on me, that's the opinionated you do it our way approach that I am really not a fan of. |
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I've checked all distrowatch portal for perfect Linux "ready for Ai", but haven't found anything usable for plug and play (without wasting hours to tune the Linux for work, which is double work in fact). There's "Linux for gaming" but no "Linux for Ai" still!
Ubuntu, Nvidia supplied, kinda everyone uses this in Ai industry, also most releases tested only in this distro. But it's incredibly annoying how restricted pip by PEP 668. Also their GUI kinda strange, its same Gnome like everywhere but with weird color themes its making strange feeling, no flatpak by default.
Ubuntu-like distros, so Ubuntu without weird colors & snaps. Zorin was my choice, but recently at fresh disk install i've got many problems only because of very outdated Python it's supplied by default. I've compiled new Python but got many missing libraries errors, i just dropped it, wasted whole day to tune all errors and don't want to spend another hour or more on this.
MxLinux-ahs latest, i deleted it, as i remember i was stuck at Cuda compiling step and just dropped it, Nvidia provided in form of install script but driver is behind other distros, it's GUI theme really hard to use on big 4K screens, breaks with any scaling. Although that distro is good and i use it on very old computers mostly, just not suitable for Comfy.
Red Hat Linux and alike, nvidia drivers not supplied, everything must be compiled, so wasted day or two just to install everything. RHEL itself very sturdy and fast but empty. Not for novices.
Fedora and alike, i've tested Fedora distros, but not with Comfy. There's Nobara which supplied with Nvidia drivers right away, but why i'm not use Fedora after these tests - for some reason it's slowest from all Linux distros, even visually Fedora distros produce some lag on clicks or any app start in GUI in fresh install, i don't know why, there's no such in Ubuntu(which is really fast on same hardware). Maybe it's not optimized.
Which do you recommend as plug-and-play distro solution for ComfyUI? It must be supplied with latest Nvidia drivers(many distros come with very outdated driver, majority without any) and come at least with Python 3.12 TODAY. Also flatpak support.
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