"I know what no one wants to admit - that everybody is just one bad day away from copy/pasting a curl command that pipes a remote script into sudo."

I installed Linux Mint three days ago. Nvidia drivers got installed automatically and I was able to load up steam and play right away. No idea what this meme is talking about

Did he first have to travel back in time to a time when this was hard because that would break a man.

"Do you want to know where I got these scars?! I found a handy guide to installing the Wi-Fi drivers I needed, but I couldn't use it could I? Because it required that I already be online..."

I'm starting to think I'm some kind of Linux Genius because I've installed Nobara, clicked on "yes" when it asked me if I wanna install the driver and voilà. Never had an issue except steam flickering but I really don't care.

Linus Torvalds' response

The best part of using Nvidia drivers on Linux was when a newer package version dropped support for my card, because fuck me.

Since then I became paranoid and started backing up all of my apt cache debs.

apt install nvidia-driver-xxx?

Sometimes you have to update the kernel headers too I guess.

I'm a simple man:

sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia-driver-545

I like this meme but installing nvidia drivers is easy tho?

Because of this I just use AMD

I just installed fedora 40. Was absolutely amazed when my three monitors just worked. Installed some games and realized I had forgotten to install the Nvidia drivers. Installed them... Laptop locked up wouldn't boot. Unplugged the third monitor and it started working. Screw Nvidia. Not buying another system with their trash. Fix your driver's you selfish POS

Joker as a road weary Linux early adopter is going to live rent free in my head for a long time. Thank you for that.

The install part is easy. It's when some update breaks everything that the madness sets in

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia

wow that was easy

tries to run wayland

And that's how I became an x11 shill

i mean it's not hard at all depending on your distro...

Then he tried using Wayland on nVidia, and the MF became the darkest Joker we've ever had.

Can i have a turn reposting this outdated moldy meme?

Funny enough I've had more issues with AMD drivers on my Windows machines than I ever have with nVidia on my Linux installs

Literally just changed to a different version by menu with nVidia a week ago when a text bug came up. Only issue on 2 different Linux installs with nVidia over the years.

Compared to ~8 years ago when I had to HUNT DOWN a veeeery specific driver version or my AMD GPU was like "lol idk how to be a GPU" on Win8 (or we're we using 20 by then I can't be assed to Google it), and even then it whined constantly and did weird shit

Of course AMD is fine now, wife's GPU installed no issue and it's from the same manufacturer, but still funny to me

I was considering eventually moving to Linux.

Now I'll wait till my current system gets an upgrade

That tracks

nvidia-inst

Profit.

Oh my god now THAT is some method acting

install nvidia

The horror! Sometimes you even have to log out and bacd back in...

pacman -S nvidia and I've never had any issues. I know that it's not that easy in some other distros, but maybe stop using shitty distros.

Debian has a .deb that does the job.

Unless you have a really old graphics card anyway and then you have to use the .run installer from Nvidia. Pain in the a-- sure, but still not Joker level hurt-the-world madness.