Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread) - eviltoast

Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

    • nottheengineer@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I disagree, it just does the steps in the manual for you. You still need to know what’s happening.

      I tried using it, got a bunch of python stack traces and eventually decided to do it manually. The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

      An installer needs to catch stuff like that, so archinstall is beta at best.

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        1 year ago

        On the one hand, you’re right. But on the other, the fuck is Windows even doing here:

        The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

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          1 year ago

          It’s windows. It always does absolutely asinine shit like this. It’s only getting worse as time goes on, so the earlier you switch to a proper OS, the better.