Where do I get Nvidia drivers for linux?

[AlTech]

Sorry Microsoft, I love windows 10 to bits.

 

I absolutely do!. I know while we've had not the best of times and we've had some rough moments, that we still love each other. But it's time to take a look over the other side of that field.

 

 

So while I will still love you dearly and use you for my most important tasks. I will move to Linux and try it out while I still mainly use Windows. Of course you would know all about trying things out. I mean after all you gave me free office 365 for a year when i bought my phone so that go and try it out.

 

I'm gonna go see what this linux hype is all about!

 

But first I need you guys to help me to find which Nvidia drivers to use and where to find them?

 

And that marks the Upgrade to AluminiumTech A100 XTX. (Software revision v6.x  Hardware revision 1.2).

 

Thanks a lot!

 

EDIT: Changed title to be more clickbaity

[Samfisher]

From the same place all Nvidia drivers are located, at http://www.GeForce.com

[AlTech]

From the same place all Nvidia drivers are located, at http://www.GeForce.com

Those drivers are satanic.

[Sakkura]

I'm gonna go see what this inux hype is all about!

 

Lol, that's from the video where he says Nvidia, fuck you!

[Samfisher]

Those drivers are satanic.

You're not gonna get much better performance TBH.  Just throw the Linux into a VM and use it there, so you can do a quick wipe without having to worry about your Win install.

[AlTech]

You're not gonna get much better performance TBH.

So the "Nouveau" drivers are bad?

 

Also Wendell from TekSnydicate showed a different way but I can't make the drivers stay (they revert back to nouveau or they screw up linux and make 1920x1080 look like 1024x768 .

[petem]

Yea, the nouveau drivers are reverse engineered versions of the NVidia drivers, and they are somewhat buggy, depending on what you're doing

[AlTech]

 

LMAO! Nvidia #REKT

 

Skip to 1:45

[petem]

I have a Ubuntu linux box, so you may have to adapt it if you have a different flavor:

• from terminal, add the PPA (personal pkg archive) source to the Ubuntu SW sources list:
  

​sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers

• update the Software sources list:
  

​sudo apt-get update

• install the desired PPA from the SW source list (in my case I installed the 355 version):
  

​sudo apt-get install nvidia-355

[AlTech]

 

I have a Ubuntu linux box, so you may have to adapt it if you have a different flavor:

• from terminal, add the PPA source to the Ubuntu SW sources list:

​sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers

• update the Software sources list:

​sudo apt-get update

• install the desired PPA from the SW source list (in my case I installed the 355 version):

​sudo apt-get install nvidia-355

 

I will be using Ubuntu 15.10 so this should be good. 

 

ALSO WTF IS THIS............ Nvidia Geforce 355? WTF I'm on 358.91 on Windows! THis is outrageous.

 

Skip to 1:45 for that good feeling.

[petem]

lol, just change the 355 to 358, it may work - I installed them a while ago...

 

I'm amazed NVidia has anything for linux, they seem so profit oriented :huh:

[AlTech]

lol, just change the 355 to 358, it may work - I installed them a while ago...

No but seriously we need everybody to start giving Nvidia The middle finger because they deserve it.

[Samfisher]

lol, just change the 355 to 358, it may work - I installed them a while ago...

 

I'm amazed NVidia has anything for linux, they seem so profit oriented :huh:

Why would Linux = no profit?  Red Hat is a multi-billion dollar company that supports and sells Linux.

[AlTech]

lol, just change the 355 to 358, it may work - I installed them a while ago...

 

I'm amazed NVidia has anything for linux, they seem so profit oriented :huh:

Nvidia's website shows 352.55 

 

Also WTF is Geforce 805A and WTF is the Geforce GTX 960A?

 

This is part of the the new linux drivers.

[AlTech]

Lol downloading ubuntu ISO took 5 seconds for me

 

Did i get the right one though? I got the LTS

[petem]

the bleeding edge ppa driver files list is at https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

 

they have a 358.09 version listed for 15.10.1 - give it a shot

[petem]

Lol downloading ubuntu ISO took 5 seconds for me

 

Did i get the right one though? I got the LTS

 

I thought the latest LTS was 14.04.3, wasn't aware of a 15.xx LTS

[petem]

I installed the 14.04.3 LTS on my linux box, from the ISO.  Briefly, for just a basic install:

boot from install USB, select fresh install (erases any existing data), answer questions, ... done ... 

update software sources list, from terminal:

sudo apt-get update

upgrade installed packages from the updated list:

sudo apt-get upgrade

 

From here, firefox is available, as well as libreoffice, gedit, and a number of other useful items.  I only use it for folding so I didn't customize it much.

 

Hope this helps

[AlTech]

I thought the latest LTS was 14.04.3, wasn't aware of a 15.xx LTS

yeah the Latest LTS is 14.04.3. I was just wondering .

 

Should I make this my main setup though?

 

Would Visual Studio for example run well in a virtual machine?

[petem]

Why would Linux = no profit?  Red Hat is a multi-billion dollar company that supports and sells Linux.

 

NVidia is pretty focused on gaming, and Linux has not historically been where the big gaming money is at.  Hopefully Steam for Linux may change that ; )

[petem]

yeah the Latest LTS is 14.04.3. I was just wondering .

 

Should I make this my main setup though?

 

Would Visual Studio for example run well in a virtual machine?

 

Hmmm, dunno about that - I program almost exclusively in Python and Javascript these days, and have no experience with VM's,

[petem]

From what I've read, visual studio is pretty tightly bound to windows, and not recommend for a linux VM (wine has problems with most versions, for example), but there's more than one way to skin a cat, so ... google is your friend ; )

 

P.S. - did some one actually skin cats more than one way, and decide that that made a good aphorism?