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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?

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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 days ago (15 children)

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

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Mistake? These drivers work much better than the ones in the non-free debian repo, at least for me

[–] zulfiqaramer@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Debian stable means stable in the sense of unchanging, not stable in the sense of no-issues.

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

Isn't it like Ubuntu LTSses? These versions are meant to be as stable as possible with carefully picked packages. Also, happy cake day

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