• Mikina@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    I’m also running NVIDIA (RTX 4070), and while I did have to try drivers from a few different sources, I eventually got it working pretty quickly.

    But my mistake was choosing an OS that doesn’t bundle non-free drivers (Fedora), from what I’ve heard some distros like Ubuntu come with NVIDIA support by default, so I guess that’s also an option.

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      10 months ago

      I’m on an Ubuntu derivative called Mint, and on the first boot it gave me a pop up from the driver tool recommending that I change to the proprietary driver with an option for one click automatic download and install.

      You are correct that this is detected and handled.

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      10 months ago

      Nvidia hosts their own RPM packages for OpenSUSE and I believe Fedora. On new installs it is just adding the nvidia repo

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        10 months ago

        True, but iirc there are several alternatives, from different repositories, and i was unlucky enough that j choose the wrong one for the first time.