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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    6 months 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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      6 months 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.