I’m planning on changing to Linux eventually, but my PC has a 4060ti. I have heard that Nvidia drivers are a pain to install, and I don’t have the means to change to a non-Nvidia GPU. Am I in trouble?

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    Installing Nvidia drivers from official repos provided by the maintainers of your distro? Easy as pie.

    Installing Nvidia drivers from nvidia’s website? Good luck my friend, I hope you know what you’re doing.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      Barely a week later and I had to do the thing. My partner uses LMDE and Nvidia 535 is the newest version in their repos, but we need nvidia 565+ for Kingdom Hearts 3.

      Installing from the website wasn’t as hard as I remember.

      1. Blacklist Nouveau.
      2. As root, without an X server running, run the nvidia*.run file from the website
      3. Follow the prompts.
      4. Verify your initramfs rebuilt correctly before rebooting.
      5. Reboot and enjoy your actually current driver.
      6. Bonus step, restore your Xorg.conf backup because you’re on a multigpu laptop and you just borked the Xorg.conf with the installer so mesa doesn’t end up loading and X ends up dead on summon