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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] roadkill@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Darkrai@kbin.social 1 points 10 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.

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

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".

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I meant 545

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 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.

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