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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?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bazzite makes it ridiculously easy, there's just a dropdown to select the nvidia version of their ISO. It's also a great distro for beginners for a lot of reasons:

bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically, this is fantastic for reliability, but it also has pretty up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

there's also aurora if you want the same thing without some addons for gamers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

bazzite is essentially identical

I wouldn't say that. It is very different in it's atomic nature, not to mention the pre-packaged software and tweaks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I meant identical to fedora atomic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean not to be pedantic but there is no "fedora atomic". There is Fedora Kinoite, Fedora Sway, Fedora Silverblue, etc. Bazzite is just yet another Fedora atomic release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This isn't recent, this is over a year old. Also note that "desktops" is plural. As in the ones I listed above make up "Fedora atomic desktops".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I consider that recent, but... yeah, they're the fedora atomic desktops. Bazzite is identical to them, you can pick kde or gnome, so it isn't just kinoite or silverblue, so, atomic is more accurate in this context.