How to install NVIDIA drivers according to the Debian wiki:>yeah just fucking do this and read pages of stupid bullshit, then paste this, then paste this, then paste this, then paste this, then this etcThe actual solution:>Paste this and you're done:>sudo sed -i 's/main.*$/main contrib non-free non-free-firmware/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources && sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64 nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfreeWhy isn't the actual solution, one terminal prompt, at the top of the page? This shit is so fucking easy; the documentation is just ass.https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
>>106644903You're using a windows graphics card though
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>>106644903Or better, the OS just could do this by itself.
>>106644903Step 1. Buy a MBPYou're done
>>1066449285000 series barely works on linux. 4000 series is full of proprietary shit. Nvidia for this gen and last gen are Windows exclusively pretty much except for CUDA.
>>106644956How do I use an RTX 5090 on a Macbook Pro?
>>106644903retard detected.you use their nvidia detect tool, it tells you exactly what package you need for the appropriate driver and then install it.Literally to apt install commands and you're done.
>>106645024>you use their nvidia detect tool, it tells you exactly what package you need for the appropriate driver and then install itI already know that I have an Ampere GPU because I fucking bought it. I don't need some cocksucker detect tool; just take me to the damn driver for current NVIDIA cards.
>>106645039>>106645024Meanwhile on the RPMFusion website:>click on NVIDIA page>click on "Current GeForce">shows you one terminal prompt to paste inIt's that easy.
>>106644903Try Fedora atomic with secureboot. Fuck that shit.
>>106645021>>106644956Hello??
>>106644903Debian is a community distro. You can submit a patch to their wiki with your solution if you believe it is superior.
>>106645063>No Geforce 256Criminals.
>>106644903>Why isn't the actual solution, one terminal prompt, at the top of the page?Last DebConf invited the Archi Wiki team.They admit themselves the Deb-Wiki is... well, a bit 'crappy.'The difference between Arch and Debian is the latter is point-release as opposed to rolling, and most "Debian-knowledge" is basically "common Linux knowledge."That means, the former breaks more often, probably therefore requiring regular updates to the Wiki as well, whereas Debian's release model forces the Wiki to basically "be dead" in-between releases.It's a bit difficult to wrap your head around, particularly as a beginner from a non-POSIX/UNIX/Linux landscape, which is ironically why Arch and the like probably attract more the switchers/migraters/refugees than the classics like Debian, Slackware, Fedora, etc.And then, well, anyone who's been using Debian as a main OS for some time probably either just doesn't care and knows to avoid nVidia altogether (in order to be able to continute not caring), and so... well, who exists, who writes Debian user guides for nVidia?Debian is a "get-Linux-shit-done" OS, and it is otherwise fully expected that things like discrete GPUs used mostly for gaming is left to the end-user, it is, strictly, more of a "niche-application" aspect (3D gaming) than on Windows, from an operating system philosophy standpoint.Ergo: You shouldn't _expect_ games to work on Debian, you should be glad (and amazed) they do, when they do.(And sometimes, they even run better... wow!)
>>106646374>whereas Debian's release model forces the Wiki to basically "be dead" in-between releases.Dead mid-fucking-releases, my ass, the damn thing probably still explains how to boot Debian from LILO and how it is more "stable" than GRUB.
>>106644903>https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDriverswhy the fuck do they post instructions (whichs is prolly wrong) for releases from fucking a decade ago?sigh... I haven't used debian.. in ... if not a decade.. say 8 years... awful
>>106644903I don't get it.. as I don't use debian, this is wrong?their documentation is dog shit
>>106645039I just want the .exe file.
>>106646460It's written by a person who should not write anything and they left it there.
>>106646436Sure, if you compare Deb to Hannah Montana Linux.But compared side-by-side to Arch, the Arch wiki is pretty much the best-documented, most complete and most regularly updated and active collection of Linux documentation out there, by far.Debian's really isn't too bad either, but compared to how much Debian is actually used, it's extremely minute.Like there probably are 3-5 Debian installations out there for every Arch installation, but they sit in univerities, server-farms, etc., not literal users using Debian as their daily driver main OS.
>>106646470lol.. ugh step 3 there... god damnit man.. sigh.. also imagine having your aunt magda 57... runs debian... how do you tell her. it's just debian, aids of the nix worldyou should just install it then you are good
>>106646460The people writing that wiki are fucking incompetents who don't even know what sed is.Why should _I_ have to sudo nano into sources.list?
>>106646497>. it's just debian, aids of the nix worlderr it's not just debian
>>106646497>lol.. ugh step 3 there... god damnit man..Seriously, they could have provided a cat command instead of making the reader create the file then sudo nano into it.
>>106646476Archwiki sucks balls. Bunch of text snippets cobbled together. You want to see good documentation? Look at Red Hat & SUSE (which, BTW, are also dead "in-between releases"), also Gentoo handbook to some extent.
>>106646649Seriously. Just compare the Debian NVIDIA article with the OpenSUSE one: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
>>106644936They do, idiot. You just get the crappy open source version because Debian doesn't have any rights to distribute Nvidia software.
>>106648247>They do, idiot. You just—Concession accepted.
>>106644903did it ever occur to you that you can download the driver yourself and install it straight from nvidia?
holy shit you shouldn't ned to use sed(which nobody knows) just fucking install an nvidia driverreee yes I'm a sedletface it we have a problem as I see it the problem is non existing or extremele bad default configurationyou install a driverall you should do is apt get install or emerge -pav nvidia-driver. and you shouldn't need to care .. go there do everything by hand + everything is old outdatyd....
>>106648746OP obviously probably shouldn't be using Debian either.The sed command basically adds the non-free repos (with which with the Nvidia driver becomes available).That could've also just simply been an install option, somebody seemingly forgot to check.Further complicating the matter, the Debian installer is ancient.In addition to that, there are also a ton of (reverse) dependencies to it.There are, like, two to three different problems here>Debian Installer is ancient>the "yolo install" option doesn't account for your typical "yolo user", just your "yolo sysadmin">OP is a "yolo user" with the wrong OS>OP has a Debian install completely unsuited to his needs (since he needs non-free for nVidia)>OP clobbers together information suited to his needs>discovers a one-liner command that does exactly thatI mean, yeah, of course it does.>OP fails to account how the problem is actually a conflation of multiple factorsI mean, this is basically the reason why Ubuntu, Mint, etc. exist.But you did it, OP, you got it to work.Now you just need to understand why.
>>106644903Lil bro would rather cry on 4chan than editing the wiki entry.
>>106650180>download Windows>doesn’t matter which edition you download (Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, LTS), installing the driver is exactly the same process and is done with a few clicks of a mouse. >download linux>NOOOOO YOU GOT THE WRONG ONE YOU NEED THIS SPECIRIC DISTRO THAT VALIDATES MY DYSPHORIA WITH THIS SPECIFIC SET OF INSTRUCTIONS AND COMMAND LINE FUCKERY THAT DOESN’T WORK ANYWHERE ELSEabsolute joke of a system
>>106644903why is debian distributing their broken cd burning fork? why does debian installer put grub on the usb stick it installed from? retarded? malicious? who knows.
>>106644903bill gates will rape your brown ass
>>106650503All the way on Linux?
