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nVidia drivers are a serious pain. You could brick your system if you aren't careful.
Brick is a big word. Nothing that can't be fix by booting a rescue image and chrooting into your OS.
you can always run:
rmmod nvidia
andrmod nouveau
. And then buy an AMD videocard. This works always! Thank me later!You say that because they are listed as removable? If so because I updated from 515 to 525 months ago and today from 525 to 535. I think they are still there but are not used anymore and are safe
At most I think you'd have to blacklist the module from loading at boot time.