Hi everyone, so I’ll start by saying that at the moment it’s just a “talking point”, since I don’t actually have any nvidia video cards to run with linux, but it’s more of a hypothetical discussion, “in anticipation of using an nvidia graphics card”.
As I find some old hardware to try out my nvidia 980ti, I could install a linux distro and a version of the nvidia proprietary drivers to actually see how to manage them, and what problems I would have to deal with.
But in this case the first problem arises, the video card I would like to try is old, and the proprietary drivers I should use are old too, and I don’t know if these drivers can work with the most recent kernel versions.
I would like to point out that I would like to use the nvidia proprietary drivers instead of the open drivers because I need access to the more advanced functions of the video card, something that the open drivers do not guarantee (from what I’ve read).
Now, regarding the open post issue, or rather the management of nvidia drivers, probably having more recent nvidia video cards this could change slightly compared to my case (future). But I still want to get an idea “on the field” to see what problems you run into and how to solve them, and if for me the “game is worth the candle” so to speak.
In your opinion, which distros and how to manage the closed nvidia drivers to have as few problems as possible at the user-side management level?
I wouldn’t want it to become a sort of job, having to struggle every time to fix things (at that point I would remain on amd video cards and goodbye), so the fewer problems I can have the better.
It’s a thorny issue, because the “fault” of all this is mainly nvidia’s, not linux’s obviously. But then it’s the users who have to struggle to solve the problem.