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?

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 days ago

    As long as you don’t make the mistake of downloading them directly from Nvidia, it should be straight-forward.

      • Enkrod@feddit.org
        3·
        9 days ago

        depends on your Distro, for Linux Mint it’s just the Driver Manager.

        To access the Driver Manager in Linux Mint, follow these steps:

        1. Click on the Menu (Taskbar) in the lower-left corner of your screen.
        2. Navigate to Administration.
        3. Click on Driver Manager.

        Load Device Manager for Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint

        Once you have opened the Driver Manager, follow these steps to install the Nvidia drivers:

        1. The Driver Manager will prompt you for your password. Enter your password and click on Authenticate.
        2. The Driver Manager will scan your system for available drivers. Once the scanning is complete, you will see a list of available drivers for your graphics card.
        3. Select the recommended Nvidia driver from the list.
        4. Click on Apply Changes to start the installation process.

        Then reboot.

        source

        For most problems you can really just google stuff like “Linux Mint Nvidia Drivers”

      • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Whatever distro you pick will have instructions for where and how to install the drivers, if it doesn’t do so for you during the install. Ubuntu is probably most likely to do so easiest. I prefer Fedora for other reasons, which is also easy to get nvidia working, but sightly less easy than Ubuntu where it’s a single checkbox during OS install.

      • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 days ago

        Each distro has it’s own way of installing the drivers, Mint uses a driver Manager GUI, endeavour OS uses the nvidia-inst script, but ultimately, they come the repositories of the distro.