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Where are the GPU drivers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Perroboc@lemmy.world to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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Ex windows user here. I really like my Linux installation, but I don’t know where the drivers are at, or if I should worry about it.

It feels great to have one less thing to worry about (I use an AMD GPU), but GPU drivers in Windows seem to have their own release cycle, fixing game compatibility and bugs, while in Linux it also feels like we have to wait for a next kernel release to get that fix.

Or maybe it’s mesa? I don’t really understand that.

TL;DR: where are the open source drivers at? Mesa or the kernel? And also, is the release cycle the same or close to Windows counterpart? Or it just doesn’t matter?

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[–] this_is_router@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The second part is bonkers. Most distro ship with the non free Nvidia driver and work well with it. Shit starts hitting the fan if you try to use the setup from nvidias website, which is not a problem of any distro but a user error

My Tipp: don't use niche distros: arch, debian, fedora, mint...all of them work well with the non free Nvidia kernel module. For fedora you have to add an additional repository if I remember correctly but that's it