Stupid Nvidia drivers question

moctir

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but when I want to use the Nvidia graphics card on my laptop I always install it from the command line with:
sudo eopkg it nvidia-developer-driver-current nvidia-developer-driver-32bit nvidia-developer-driver-common
I was reading an article however where they were saying to use the propietry Nvidia drivers you have to install this through doflicky, so is what I'm using not the official Nvidia drivers and giving me worse performance then? Or did I misunderstand?

Also are there any updates to the plans for switchable graphics instead of having to reinstall and reboot? On plasma when ever I uninstall them and reboot ksmserver-logout-greeter crashes and I've got to reboot from command line.

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you can install the driver via command line, thats fine. doflicky is a gui tool for installing the proprietary driver the easy way. But doflicky won't offer you the developer driver. Only the stable driver as far as i know. The stable driver is called nvidia-glx-driver-current (in contrast to nvidia-developer-driver-current). But they all come from the official Solus repository. You could search the Software Center for the different nvidia drivers. Regarding performance, you have to find out yourself, if the newer "developer" driver is better for you.

moctir

Thanks, I didn't mean if the developer one was better for performance than current, but just if installing through doflicky was an actual different driver to what is in the Solus repository, if it's the same as current that's all fine -- or at least what I was originally inquiring about!