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Average NVIDIA driver experience (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If you have a system with nVidia and you want to run Linux, just use Pop!_OS and call it a day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Still using the same garbage nVidia drivers in PopOS as you would with any other distro.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, 100% agree. All I meant is that at least you don't have to fight the install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They run them through QA at least and work directly with Nvidia to fix any issues they notice. They dont catch everything of course but its still good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Funny enough, popos ships with version 475, which is ancient. You still want to upgrade to 525 if you want Vulkan 1.3 support; I.e for bottles gaming, which needs Vulkan 1.3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It updates to the latest immediately. I shut down my laptop (the one with nVidia) but I'm fairly certain the driver was 530+. I know it was 527 not so long ago. All you have to do is your regularly scheduled "sudo apt upgrade".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sorry, I meant 545

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How is it for dualbooting with Win11?
Currently on OpenSuse Leap(on a separate hdd) because many linux recommendation articles suggested that it had the best out of box support for Nvidia n secure boot.
But debian/ubuntu-based systems do have the advantage of being popular. More tutorials n packages readily available.

I think I've read that Ubuntu also supports nvidia drivers, but I had read that snap is polarising, with some people saying that it slows down the startup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I don't dual boot so I cannot answer that question.

Pop!_OS is currently based on Ubuntu so most tutorials will apply.

Pop!_OS has a separate Nvidia iso with all the drivers baked in from the initial install.

Snap is supported but not the default. Installs are mainly done via deb and flatpak.