I’m not sure if this is what you mean, but I do want to clarify - the drivers in the repository are still proprietary drivers from Nvidia, just tested and packaged by the distribution maintainers, dkms is just some magic that lets them work with arbitrary kernels with minimal compilation. Unless you’re using nouveau, which I don’t think is ready for most uses.
I understand that. What I meant was I was not happy with having to go out of my way to download other drivers. My apologies - I realized my previous comment was not very clear. Also, thank you for the dkms explanation. :)
I’ve been in linux for a short while already, but this is the first time I’ve used debian with an nvidia gpu. It’s…a bit different from what I’ve experienced with arch on my laptops (probably because they don’t have a discrete gpu).
Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into this.
Edit: yeah, I wasn’t too happy with having to get the propriety drivers from nvidia myself.
I’m not sure if this is what you mean, but I do want to clarify - the drivers in the repository are still proprietary drivers from Nvidia, just tested and packaged by the distribution maintainers, dkms is just some magic that lets them work with arbitrary kernels with minimal compilation. Unless you’re using nouveau, which I don’t think is ready for most uses.
I understand that. What I meant was I was not happy with having to go out of my way to download other drivers. My apologies - I realized my previous comment was not very clear. Also, thank you for the dkms explanation. :)
I’ve been in linux for a short while already, but this is the first time I’ve used debian with an nvidia gpu. It’s…a bit different from what I’ve experienced with arch on my laptops (probably because they don’t have a discrete gpu).