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?

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    4·
    7 months ago

    As long as you don’t make the mistake of downloading them directly from Nvidia, it should be straight-forward.

    • pewpew@feddit.it
      0·
      7 months ago

      Mistake? These drivers work much better than the ones in the non-free debian repo, at least for me

        • pewpew@feddit.it
          1·
          7 months ago

          Isn’t it like Ubuntu LTSses? These versions are meant to be as stable as possible with carefully picked packages. Also, happy cake day

      • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
        0·
        7 months ago

        Good God! According to the Debian wiki, they’re still on 535, no wonder they don’t work properly! Still, if you use Debian, you know what you’re getting in to. You’ll also have more *fun* when the kernel or nvidia drivers update.

        • pewpew@feddit.it
          2·
          7 months ago

          Nah… to update the driver I just re run the file and it usually just works (Even in Wayland, on Debian unstable). The only time it broke was when I upgraded to kernel 6.12 and I had to manually install the open source modules because the ones that came with the proprietary ones had an issue that they later fixed, so it’s totally fine now. The only issue I have with the drivers is that when I wake up the PC from sleep I have to restart Plasma (only on Wayland tho)

      • Enkrod@feddit.org
        1·
        7 months ago

        depends on your Distro, for Linux Mint it’s just the Driver Manager.

        To access the Driver Manager in Linux Mint, follow these steps:

        1. Click on the Menu (Taskbar) in the lower-left corner of your screen.
        2. Navigate to Administration.
        3. Click on Driver Manager.

        Load Device Manager for Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint

        Once you have opened the Driver Manager, follow these steps to install the Nvidia drivers:

        1. The Driver Manager will prompt you for your password. Enter your password and click on Authenticate.
        2. The Driver Manager will scan your system for available drivers. Once the scanning is complete, you will see a list of available drivers for your graphics card.
        3. Select the recommended Nvidia driver from the list.
        4. Click on Apply Changes to start the installation process.

        Then reboot.

        source

        For most problems you can really just google stuff like “Linux Mint Nvidia Drivers”