So i’m helping my best friend to try instaling nvidia gtx 1050 mobile drivers on his laptop, we genualy don’t know what to do and i can figure out how to make it work, so it would be very helpfull if someone could explain me what to do or provive me with a guide to make it work

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Indeed, since it’s a laptop. It uses the iGPU for battery saving graphics and the Nvidia dGPU for performance. That’s hybrid graphics / optimus.

    That said, Nvidia is a pain. I always recommend distrohopping until you land on a distro that mostly works for your use case and go from there.