i have linux mint LMDE. there i just searched nvidia, found the driver and installed it. wheres the problem?
I have a better one. Installing ATI drivers mid 2000s.
sudo apt install nvidia-driverCongratulations, firefox is now crashing
pacman -S nvidia-dkmsHollywood, here I come!
Partial updates are not supported on Arch. You need to use
-Syu.I think you’re misunderstanding what a partial upgrade is.
A partial upgrade is where you update the database without then upgrading every package (calling
pacman -Sywith theuswitch).pacman -S, therefore, is not a partial upgrade, as the database is not updated with theyswitch.See System maintenance#Partial upgrades are unsupported for more info.
I never understood this. Maybe because I stick with basic distros like Ubuntu or Mint. But I have not had this issue.
I had issues in like… 2010 or so. But not for about a decade
I haven’t had issues for about a decade. I haven’t had an nvidia card for about a decade either. I think the two may be connected.
Honestly, all it took these days is reading the news.
I use mint on two different machines with Nvidia GPUs. One is a several year old desktop with a 1080 and the other is a two year old Dell laptop with a discrete nvidia GPU in addition to the Intel one on the processor.
Now granted I don’t play a ton of games right now, and when I do they usually aren’t cutting edge, but I don’t recall many problems so far. I use NVENC for Jellyfin and editing videos more often, and that has been pretty smooth. The one issue I had was related to that though. Kdenlive (flatpak) updated and could no longer export videos because it was looking for a newer version of something my mint-supplied nvidia driver wasn’t yet updated to have.
Trying to install a newer driver manually was a whole damn thing though, so I rolled back the kdenlive flatpak to the one that worked.
It was a horror show a decade or two back when I first tried Linux. I feel like this meme is just too late or just old.
laughs in Pop!_OS
2009 called
It’s asking why things haven’t changed in 14 years
(things are somewhat better)
IT’S FIXED!
