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ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 1 year ago
How do I install the nVidia drivers on Linux? I asking in case I decide to finally switch (found some Linux DAW, now all is happy, likely will go with Ubuntu + KDE).
For the open source Nouveau driver, it’s included in Mesa. \
For the proprietary drivers it depends on the distro, but most allow you to install them during the installation of the distro, or using your package manager.
A distro like fedora however requires extra steps because they’re not included in the official repos.
On Ubuntu it’s just an option during installation. So far that’s the easiest install I’ve seen.
OpenSUSE supports a graphical install through their software manager, but I found it caused some issues so I ended using the command line. That was actually very easy if you’re not uncomfortable taking a terminal.
On fedora I followed the official docs but their instructions didn’t work, so I had to find some thread on a forum with alternate instructions. It like an hour to get it working.
For sheer ease of use I would definitely stick to Ubuntu since that’s the only distro Steam officially supports. I’ve had a good experience with OpenSUSE though so I’m sticking with it.
What DAW do you use? I was pretty happy with Bitwig, the only con is that it’s not FOSS.
I found LMMS, which is perfectly fine for playing around with music. Lacks a few features though unfortunately, like recording at the moment. Not open source, but I also use Reaper, mainly to test MIDI stuff of my game engine through a loopback port on Windows (I'm a crazy person, and I wrote software synthesizers for my game engine).
LMMS and Reaper weren’t my things. I usually do everything by Terminal, but DAWs I’d where UI is a core necessity. IMO LMMS and Reaper just dont have those. Good that you found a setup through! Music on Linux is definitely getting better, maybe even faster than gaming.
Pick a distro that ships with Nvidia drivers out of the box. My personal recommendation is Pop OS.
If you’re set on Nvidia, I recommend Pop OS or Nobara. Pop has a separate image that preinstalls Nvidia drivers. Nobara has a built in tool to download and install Nvidia drivers on first launch. Of the two, I’d probably go with Nobara (I’ve been using it for a year or so, love it) because not onky does it have that tool, it also has an official KDE version, which it sounds like you’d prefer. You could install KDE with Pop, but I’ve done that before, and it creates a bloated nightmare of conflicting apps.
Not NVidia driver-related, but I would recommend KDE Neon or Kubuntu since they're both KDE and Ubuntu-based, KDE Neon is made by KDE while Kubuntu is an Ubuntu flavor.
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Depends on the distro you choose, but these days it’s nothing too complicated. Either clicking an option for enabling the private driver in the drivers settings, or worse case just running a couple commands to manually add the private driver repo and download the package. You are done in 5 min m