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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 Ubuntu installed as manually installed.

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

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

    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.






  • Searching for stuff is polluted by AI generated stupidly long and full of unnecessary explanations.

    What is X?
    Why would you use X?
    What are the advantages of X?
    What are the disadvantages of X?
    The history of X

    then, finally, after 36 paragraphs:

    How to use X
    Turn the switch on while holding the X button



  • You have a point. After I wrote it I thought of 2 things. Firstly, even those that are lucky enough to travel will never travel everywhere. So, how can they claim the best without having seen all possibilities? Secondly, there are ways to learn and /or experience things without being physically present, like read about it in a book, or watch a documentary. That counts for something.

    Now I think about it, I could have changed it to:

    "I live in the best country on the planet!”

    “Really? How do you know? How do you measure that? What evidence do you have to back that up?”

    But, it would probably go all downhill from there, as the original one inevitably would…😆







  • State generalities and personal experiences as fact.

    State facts and sources.
    Response: “Well, I don’t believe that”

    System is working as designed. Not a bug, WONTFIX

    Some of the general statements he made, then provided a bunch of topics behind it as the rationale, each of which was clearly going to be disputed and could be debated for 2 hours alone, was pretty laughable…

    Ultimately, it’s not a dialogue, it’s 21 people shaking their fists and baying at the moon.