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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] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Debian stable means stable in the sense of unchanging, not stable in the sense of no-issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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)