There are many reasons to dislike Nvidia on Linux. Here is a little thing that bugs me all the time, the updates. Normally the system updates would be quick and fast, but with the proprietary drivers of Nvidia involved, it gets quiet slow process. And I am not even talking about any other problem I encounter, just about the updates.

As an Archlinux based system user (EndeavourOS to be precise), I get new Kernel updates all the time. That means every time a new Kernel version is installed, the Nvidia driver DKMS has to be installed too. And that is basically the slowest part. But that’s not too bad, even though it’s doing this twice for each Kernel I have once.

What’s more infuriating is, if you also happen to use Flatpaks for a very few applications. I really don’t have many Flatpaks at all. Yet, the Nvidia drivers are installed in 7 versions or what?! And they are full downloads, each 340 MB or more. This takes ages and is the only part that takes long to update Flatpak system. I always do flatpak remove --unused to make sure nothing useless is present. /RANT (EDIT: Just typos corrected.)

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    @aleph “Cascadia Code”
    Here is fastfetch output:

    OS: EndeavourOS x86_64
    Kernel: 6.1.51-1-lts
    Uptime: 50 mins
    Packages: 1149 (pacman), 34 (flatpak)
    Shell: bash 5.1.16
    Display (AG271QG): 2560x1440 @ 120Hz
    DE: qtile
    WM: Qtile 0.22.1 (X11)
    Theme: Arc-Dark [GTK2/3]
    Icons: Qogir-dark [GTK2/3]
    Font: Cascadia Code (12pt) [GTK2/3]
    Cursor: Qogir
    Terminal: xfce4-terminal 1.1.0
    Terminal Font: Cascadia Code (13pt)
    CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E3-1230 v3 (8) @ 3,7 GHz
    GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
    Memory: 3,11 GiB / 15,57 GiB (20%)
    Disk (/): 122,70 GiB / 227,21 GiB (54%) - ext4
    Disk (/media/Backup): 149,83 GiB / 916,70 GiB (16%) - ext4
    Disk (/media/Emulation): 3,83 TiB / 5,41 TiB (71%) - ext4
    Disk (/media/My): 1,04 TiB / 3,58 TiB (29%) - ext4
    Disk (/media/System): 411,39 GiB / 915,82 GiB (45%) - ext4
    Locale: en_US.UTF-8