Installing Graphics Cards Drivers on Linux

On windows:
>want to install latest NVIDIA drivers
>download .exe installer and install
>takes 15 minutes and its done! so easy! wow!

Now, on linux
>Go to additional drivers
>Click NVIDIA binary driver
>Click apply changes
>takes 3 minutes to download
>restart computer to make sure its completed
>black screen
>andsoitbegins.jpg
>google how to fix
>i have to run "sudo apt-get purge nvidia*" to remove the broken drivers
>boot into linux safe mode
> go to command line
>try to do it
>ERROR! FILE SYSTEM READ ONLY!!!!
>"mount -o rw,remount /"
>finally i remove the drivers
>reboot into linux, try to install again
>doesn't work.jpg
>apparently the black screen issue is caused by not having "nomodeset" in the grub settings
>add it and it works temporarily
>need to figure out how to edit grub permanently
>"sudo nano /etc/default/grub"
>"sudo update-grub"


what the fuck. i fucking hate linux. how could ANYONE use this pile of crap.

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>have intel hd
>play most games at a decent framerate and resolution
>see gamer babbies spend hundreds on shitty cards
>laugh as I save money for the bad times
kek

They can break the system under windows too

don't forget
>try to rationalize my poor decision making and poverty to strangers on the internet
...lel

Or.

>Go to the NVIDIA website and get a .run file
>have to change a bit of text to disable current drivers
>restart
>run the file
>literally just fine

Are you just retarded?

indeed, its sad to see these kids not have any money to spend due to their shitty game and purchase addiction. i feel sorry for em

>pacman -S nvidia-driver
>enter password
>y
>done
Wow so hard.

>literally taking you step by step
>"gonna take this screenshot, that'll show them!

get a life

>proprietary drivers
nouveau or nothing

Arch teaches you a lot, huh. Really the best distro to learn how linux werks.

AMD's open drivers outperform AMDGPU-PRO for gaming workloads on current hardware, and will continue to do so. Intel is open only. It's literally just novidya cucks or miners that still need proprietary GPU drivers on Linux.

>cd /usr/src/linux
>make menuconfig
>search for amgdpu
>enable as (m)odule
>exit and save
>make -j8 && make modules_install && make install
>grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>emerge linux-firmware
>reboot
w-woah.. so hard

>takes 15 minutes
FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAGAGAHGAAAGAGAGAGGAGAGGAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

>using proprietary drivers
:------------DD

my experience with drivers was simple, just install through synaptic and it werks

the problem is with the config. by default the nvidia config tool doesn't actually save any of your settings, it's just a front-end xorg generator. something as simple as rearranging the order of your monitors requires appending a bunch of bullshit to your start script or some asinine shit. linux in a nutshell

that and spending a day figuring out how to tweak my mouse sensitivity and acceleration made me realize linux is irredeemable dogshit

You should have installed from your distro repos, even opensuse tumbleweed have nvidia repos now but even bother with this bait thread

It's not Linux's fault that Nvidia cant produce a foss driver like AMD and Intel do.

I don't have that problem on Antergos :)

It's funny how you spell gentoo

Updates

On windows:
>want to install latest Update
>Downloads and reboots
>Applying Changes (15 minutes)
>Error: Reversing Changes ( 5 minutes)
>Reboot
>repeat 3 Times
>decide to boot in safe mode and disable updates

On Ubunto
>sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
> 1 minute for the whole thing
> done

>pacman -S nvidia
>done
wew

I've literally had Nvidia drivers cause BSODs in windows in (previous year).

>just werks.

pacman -S xf86-video-ati

Idunno man everything works out of the box for me on Ubuntu. AMD GPU.

until you decide to upgrade to newer ubuntu release

while I think you are a bad troll there certainly are people who believe their intel hd is just as good as any real gpu for games
and that makes me sad

Yeah 2FPS is decent for me, too. Anything higher gives me a headache.

This includes wiping your old drivers to ensure compatibility

What will happen?

On arch Linux
>pacaur -S nvidia nvidia-utils
>Reboot
Takes literally seconds and it's done! So easy! Wow!

On Windows
>Take 5 minutes to boot the pile of shit operating system.
>Download EXE.
>Run it.
>It installs.
>Windows update fucking uninstalls it, and installs its own old ass driver, forces a reboot
>Wait another 5 minutes.
>WTF no driver!
>Let Windows install its own
>Reboot
>Drivers. Old drivers.
>Try reinstalling new drivers.
>Same shit happens.
This took 6 months to resolve.
Im worried to reinstall Windows despite it taking literally 10-20 minutes to boot after half a year of usage.
Updates take solid hours.
I don't even have to reboot for this shit on linux unless it's a kernel update.

I hope you're not actually this retarded.

>On Windows
>>Take 5 minutes to boot the pile of shit operating system.
>>Download EXE.
>>Run it.
>>It installs.
>>Windows update fucking uninstalls it, and installs its own old ass driver, forces a reboot
>>Wait another 5 minutes.
>>WTF no driver!
>>Let Windows install its own
>>Reboot
>>Drivers. Old drivers.
>>Try reinstalling new drivers.
>>Same shit happens.
>This took 6 months to resolve.
>Im worried to reinstall Windows despite it taking literally 10-20 minutes to boot after half a year of usage.
>Updates take solid hours.
>I don't even have to reboot for this shit on linux unless it's a kernel update.
this whole post is a 100% fictional work of art
good job
OP exaggerated, but you just had to top him

>Goyvidea
L M A O

AMD master race. Linux kernels come AMD-patched ootb

Two months ago w10 replaced my 17.5.2(i think) with 17.1.1 wuthout asking anything WHILE I WAS PLAYING. That was last day i used windows.

>updated driver on windows
>nvidia driver failed to install
>uninstall nvidia driver
>do clean installation of new nvidia driver
>installation failed no error code
>google issue: hundreds of youtube videos with real time notepad at 34WPM telling me to uninstall driver and install the new one
>actual fix: reboot into safemode purge the nvidia drivers with a 3rd party application made by some dude that nvidia doesn't even recognize for fixing their broken nested drivers
>reboot again and try to install the new nvidia driver
>installation failed
>reinstall windows to get rid of whatever the fuck is interrupting it
>install nvidia driver

oh boy i love nvidia.

don't even get me started on how fucking awful Windows is when trying to switch from IDE to AHCI with an SSD.

>switch from IDE to AHCI with an SSD.
Isn't it just 1 param in registry?

apt install nvidia-drivers
justwerks

it's 1 param in registry that blue screens your computer when your reboot by telling you

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DRIVE

>Click apply changes
>takes 3 minutes to download
>restart computer to make sure its completed

Obviously Linux problems, amirite guys?

Brainlet detected.

>linux
>plug in graphics card
>everything works

why would you even bother messing with drivers or even worse windoes

pacman -S nvidia

That's it.
The problem with linux distros is that new users are not familiar with the environment, but instead of being approachable, all GNU/Linux devs value the Unix history and their precious shell syntax that isn't readily understandable to you if you didn't work as an engineer at MIT in the seventies.

The crux of the joke is that Windows users get fed up with Windows and decide to try a linux distro, but they are faced with completely new filesystems and constructs that all linux distros expects you to grasp without explaining them for a second.

So Windows users get boiling mad when they can't install executables and when configurations must be done in text files.

Also linux isn't for desktop so either stop trying or start developing

>source: I have one of each three mainstream OS' running on my two machines and come from Windows long-time

>look at me
>look at how incompetent and stupid i am
>look at me complaining because of my personal failures

just end it all senpai

>not forking every program you intend to use and writing a variant that uses libcaca
>not writing a program that forces games to run in sub 1080p and re-renders them using libcaca
Holy shit OP I think you're missing the most significant byte of the address for what year we're in, you're 2000 years behind the times.

>big corporation doesn't give a shit about their packages and don't keep them up with the kernel or other critical components
> community drops them off because they are shit
>then they start shipping their shit in a much harder method that increase user back pain
that's the reality, this corporations cant keep up with development cycles and lack off standardized apis so they end up not maintaining their software and all goes to shits.
Who to blame? no idea maybe google with his new kernel can solve this nightmare where not a single distro works out of the box with any modern android device

zypper rm drm-kmp-default
zypper addrepo --refresh http.download.nvidia.com/opensuse/ NVIDIA
zypper install-new-recommends


GUI mode possible too.

>implying any of that needs to be done

# apt-get install nvidia-driver

Fucking so hard, eh?

>its all the users fault
hmmm i wonder why you don't say this when anons are spamming webms of macos and windows 'fails'

Or just use integrated?

>boot up windows system
>everything just works
>boot up macos system
>everything just works
>boot up linux system
>SYSTEM ERROR
>no hardware accel because drivers are fucked
>have to rely on strangers random ass commands to get anything fixed
interesting
>anons online telling me to just not use the gpu at all
L M A O

Dont even bother OP. Linux is fucking trash and NVIDIA drivers on it are amazingly AWFUL


Nvidia VS Nouveau

Nvidia 1

webmshare.com/EBNPa

2 webm.land/w/xTtr/


Nouveau webmshare.com/eQvVJ

(sudo) emerge nvidia-drivers
restart X
enjoy...

webm.land/w/bxo6/

Fucking despicable.

>pacman -S nouveau

So hard.

>google nvidia
>click 3rd link because first 2 ones were ads
>accept to use nvidia's system scanning botnet
>download driver
>open it
>it installs the installer (WTF)
>open the installer
>disable all the stupid shit you don't need
>still takes an hour
>you now have Bonzi Buddy installed
>uninstall it
>done wow so fast and clean

>webm.land/w/bxo6/
Linux sucks.

the linux apologists in this thread are hilarious

please just accept the fact that desktop linux is fundamentally flawed and that the gist of op's post is relevant in 1997, 2007, and 2017.

>sub 80IQ negro