I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I’ve been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    9 hours ago

    You’re making it to be ridiculous when you just don’t understand the process…which is making it seem like it’s far more complicated that it actually is.

    You literally generally run a single command, like sudo ubuntu-drivers install which will choose the most current and best drivers for your GPU and install them… If you want to install a specific version then sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia:535. That’s it. If you’re on an Ubuntu version you should not be manually installing drivers via APT as there are literally applications whose sole purpose is to properly install gfx drivers…

    nouveau drivers come with Ubuntu.

    What you’ll have to do is purge the currently installed manual drivers and then use ubuntu-drivers to install your gfx drivers;

    sudo apt purge nvidia-driver-535 #or whatever your installed version is
sudo apt autoremove
    • No1@aussie.zone
      11·
      6 hours ago

      You misunderstood what I wrote.

      I didn’t manually install anything.

      On my machine, Ubuntu upgrade/install AND sudo ubuntu-drivers install BOTH flag the drivers Ubuntu installed as manually installed.

      When you go to the Additional Drivers, it says you have manually installed drivers and all options are greyed out.

      Why do I want another driver? I found the open driver Ubuntu chose to install was flaky and provided substandard performance compared to the proprietary driver.

      And I have my commands to remove drivers, and for reference, the commands you give won’t help a noob, and your steps are incomplete for earlier Ubuntu versions.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        6 hours ago

        I didn’t manually install anything.

        Like I said, you’re misrepresenting what’s happened here…

        You said specifically that you had to remove the existing driver, and those drivers don’t come pre-installed, nor do they get automatically installed. So you had to have installed them yourself for you to have to remove them to install the right driver. lol

        • No1@aussie.zone
          11·
          6 hours ago

          Reread my comment.

          “On my machine, Ubuntu upgrade/install AND sudo ubuntu-drivers install BOTH flag the drivers Ubuntu installed as manually installed.”

          That’s why I have to manually remove them to choose a better nvidia driver.

          I can’t say it any clearer