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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • 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 they installed as manually installed.

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

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

    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.


  • Ubuntu Additional Drivers offered me a choice between 11 different nvidia drivers.

    nouveau,and then a mishmash of nvidia versions, open, proprietary and server.

    Like OP was probably trying to do, had to manually remove the existing driver before you could select anything. All those options were greyed out because of a ‘manual installed driver’

    And guess what did this ‘manual installed driver’? Me? No. Ubuntu’s own uograde or running the command for ubuntu to select the ‘besr driver’.

    Fortunately, I’d been through nvidia hell several times, and knew how to manually perform the removal and install, but felt horrified for any new users that might stumble into this. With changing versions, it can be difficult when searching to work out which results are actually relevant, and which are obsolete.

    Always remember anything with a wildcard is your enemy. Triple check before you can trust it and hit enter.






  • NO! NO, I WON’T HAVE IT!

    I will not give up my command line, obscure, non-obvious commands that control my machine!

    It is an abomination that I don’t have to search for, and then wade through hundreds of AI generated pages of useless information just to show me what services are running with systemd!

    I am seriously considering starting my own startup system. I am thinking I could initiate (init) runlevels to start subsystems at various stages. If anyone is interested, hit me up.







  • Couple of things that might be useful:

    • Setup remote desktop access using VNC/RDP. It can be useful to access your PC etc while using your phone or other devices. Or accessing a raspberry pi on your main PC
    • Setup a virtual machine and install Windows in it. It might be a good way to think about migrating to linux as your main OS
    • Steam. See how performance on Linux compares to Windows for your games.