Hello everyone, I want to install Mint on my PC, but I wonder if NVIDIA drivers work well.

[halcyon ginkgo]

Hope somone answer me, thanks in advance

[weak depot]

with mint you get a driver manager, so its not hard to install. i use a 4070 and everything work fine

looks like this (this one is older, but work the same)

i haven't seen difference in performance for now. i dont play triple A tho

[weak depot]

one thing i forgot to mention, you will need to disable secure boot for the drivers to work

you can do this in your bios/uefi menu

[night whale]

In my case secure boot can be left as it is, also no problems with drivers. But it is true for modern Nvidia GPU. I mean RTX is correctly supported. But years ago, I use to have problems with Nvidia under Ubuntu. I'm quite surprised that 6x series also work well. If I would have to guess, I will say it must be 9x series in my case and almost never it worked out of the box. Usually some linux magic was required after every fresh install

So Mint fixes, or Nvidia improved over years also for older units

[weak depot]

on mint 22.1, i had an issue with old driver not working properly that made steam unable to download. i think its because of the drivers not being in the right place

i think it was 472 drivers with a gt 710

[night whale]

yes, but still it is case of rather older nvidia generations GT/GTX. Every RTX should work just fine without any effort

[weak depot]

haven't got problem with a 3060 Ti or my current 4070. so yeah work pretty nice

[halcyon ginkgo]

Thanks again! I suppose I can choose between Linux and Windows when I turn on or reboot the PC, right?

[weak depot]

You can dual boot with a special software (forgot the name), I can’t help you with that but you can search ‘’dual boot’’ and you will probably find tutorial. You can also ask again in support. when you chose to install mint, you can chose to install it with windows but I don’t know how that work