How do I get Nviddia drivers to work in arch? - eviltoast

So i’m helping my best friend to try instaling nvidia gtx 1050 mobile drivers on his laptop, we genualy don’t know what to do and i can figure out how to make it work, so it would be very helpfull if someone could explain me what to do or provive me with a guide to make it work

    • Liz_thestrange@lemmy.mlOP
      51·
      11 months ago

      He likes arch and the whole point of the existence of distros is that you could take one and adjust it to your needs

      • the_q@lemmy.world
        13·
        11 months ago

        Correct, but when you don’t know how to install the drivers for your GPU you might hit be ready for Arch.

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneEnglish
      28·
      11 months ago

      Agreed. Spend the the time learning something meaningful like programming not how to configure certain bits of software to save a couple of MB.

        • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneEnglish
          15·
          11 months ago

          While off-topic, I’m of the opinion that Arch only exists to support elitists which relates to the comment.

          • Arch isn’t always the most up to date
          • It isn’t very reliable
          • It doesn’t try to be any easier to use (won’t even work with GNOME software)
          • It’s not as straight forward to contribute to like, say, Void Linux which causes issues with burnt-out and busy maintainers
          • It installs the the bare minimum so stuff won’t always work
          • The only real benefit is you get a smaller install size (x86 only) and maybe some more customisablility.

          But for some reason it gets treated like an ideal for every Linux user to reach. It’s supposedly like to going to the Olympics as an elite athlete. An Arch system needs more work to maintain, but there isn’t really much to gain

          • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
            5·
            11 months ago

            Every point you made is either patently false (isn’t up to date, won’t even work with gnome) or doesn’t make any sense (installs the bare minimum, so stuff won’t always work).

            The only part we agree on is that arch isn’t for everyone.

            • Fisch@lemmy.ml
              1·
              11 months ago

              I think he meant the application GNOME Software. Only valid point, I would like to be able to install or at least update my arch packages through GNOME Software like I do with flatpaks. Doesn’t have anything to do with the way Arch works tho, it’s just that no one has made a plugin yet that allows this.

              • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                11 months ago

                Ah, I didn’t realize there was actually a piece of gnome software literally called “gnome software” lol. Not confusing at all.