diff --git a/notebooks/writing_a_trace_transform_cpu_offloading.ipynb b/notebooks/writing_a_trace_transform_cpu_offloading.ipynb
index 86d8263769..ef10be3304 100644
--- a/notebooks/writing_a_trace_transform_cpu_offloading.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/writing_a_trace_transform_cpu_offloading.ipynb
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 13,
+   "execution_count": null,
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
     {
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
     "model, args, kwargs = get_model_and_args()\n",
     "\n",
     "# Check against the vanilla `thunder.jit` model\n",
-    "expected = thunder.jit(model)(*args, **kwargs)\n",
+    "expected = thunder.jit(model, nv_enable_linear=False)(*args, **kwargs)\n",
     "\n",
     "grad_output = torch.randn_like(expected)\n",
     "expected_grads = torch.autograd.grad(expected, model.parameters(), grad_output)\n",
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@
     "    expected_cpu = expected.to(\"cpu\")\n",
     "    expected_grads_cpu = tree_map(lambda t: t.to(\"cpu\"), expected_grads)\n",
     "\n",
-    "jmodel = thunder.jit(model, transforms=[CPUOffloading()])\n",
+    "jmodel = thunder.jit(model, nv_enable_linear=False, transforms=[CPUOffloading()])\n",
     "\n",
     "actual = jmodel(*args, **kwargs)\n",
     "\n",
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 14,
+   "execution_count": null,
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
     {
@@ -656,8 +656,8 @@
    "source": [
     "model, args, kwargs = get_model_and_args()\n",
     "\n",
-    "measurement_thunder = benchmark(thunder.jit(model), model, args, kwargs)\n",
-    "measurement_thunder_offload = benchmark(thunder.jit(model, transforms=[CPUOffloading()]), model, args, kwargs)\n",
+    "measurement_thunder = benchmark(thunder.jit(model, nv_enable_linear=False), model, args, kwargs)\n",
+    "measurement_thunder_offload = benchmark(thunder.jit(model, nv_enable_linear=False, transforms=[CPUOffloading()]), model, args, kwargs)\n",
     "\n",
     "del model, args, kwargs\n",
     "\n",
diff --git a/thunder/executors/nvfuserex_impl.py b/thunder/executors/nvfuserex_impl.py
index 4e5a204f8c..8fcd703a60 100644
--- a/thunder/executors/nvfuserex_impl.py
+++ b/thunder/executors/nvfuserex_impl.py
@@ -2261,6 +2261,10 @@ def map_inside_replacement(x: Any) -> None:
 
 def _linear_check(a: TensorProxy, b: TensorProxy, bias: TensorProxy | None) -> bool:
     enable_linear: None | bool = get_compile_option("nv_enable_linear", "Enable nvFuser linear.")
+    # Enable linear by default if nvFuser version is 0.2.23 or later
+    # Because nvFuser 0.2.23 has a fix for https://github.com/NVIDIA/Fuser/issues/3369
+    if enable_linear is None and nvfuser_version() >= LooseVersion("0.2.23"):
+        enable_linear = True
     if not enable_linear:
         return False
     # Verify linear inputs and bias (optional) are supported tensors.
diff --git a/thunder/tests/test_networks.py b/thunder/tests/test_networks.py
index 0cbef7299e..073958875d 100644
--- a/thunder/tests/test_networks.py
+++ b/thunder/tests/test_networks.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from functools import partial
 import warnings
+from looseversion import LooseVersion
 
 import pytest
 import torch
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@
 )
 import thunder.tests.nanogpt_model as nanogpt_model
 import thunder.tests.hf_bart_self_attn as hf_bart_self_attn
+from thunder.executors.nvfuserex import nvfuser_version
 
 #
 # nanoGPT tests
@@ -557,4 +559,5 @@ def test_hf_llama():
 
     top_level_symbol_names = {bsym.sym.name for bsym in thunder.last_traces(jm)[-1].bound_symbols}
     # changes this to fewer as needed, the goal is to not have too many fusions
-    assert len([s for s in top_level_symbol_names if s.startswith("nvFusion")]) == 7
+    num_of_nvfusion = 4 if nvfuser_version() >= LooseVersion("0.2.23") else 7
+    assert len([s for s in top_level_symbol_names if s.startswith("nvFusion")]) == num_of_nvfusion
diff --git a/thunder/tests/test_nvfuser.py b/thunder/tests/test_nvfuser.py
index 2f8cd0ed09..5681b00d21 100644
--- a/thunder/tests/test_nvfuser.py
+++ b/thunder/tests/test_nvfuser.py
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ def test_cse_rematerialization(executor, device, _):
         disable_torch_autograd=True,
         executors=executor.executors_list(),
         nv_enable_bookend=False,
+        nv_enable_linear=False,
     )
     compiled_func(x, y)