‘ can deliver a kickass experience with almost no effort from the user. ‘The demand for fresh drivers in a fast developing market is becoming hard to ignore, users are going to want the latest upstream has to offer,’ Castro explains in an e-mail to the Ubuntu Desktop mailing list. ‘A solution that lets Ubuntu users get the latest hardware drivers safely is coming.’ If you want to squeeze every last frame and HD texture out of the latest big-name Steam game you’ll need the latest binary drivers blob.
LINUX INSTALL LATEST NVIDIA DRIVERS INSTALL
The closed-source NVIDIA graphics drivers that are available to install on Ubuntu from the archive (using the command line, synaptic or through the additional drivers tool) work fine for most and can handle the composited Unity desktop shell with ease. Why Is This Needed? Ubuntu provides drivers – but they’re not the latest
Everyone else would continue to receive and use the more recent stable NVIDIA Linux driver snapshot included in the Ubuntu archive. New upstream drivers would be installed and updated from this new PPA only when a user explicitly opts-in to it. The move would benefit Ubuntu gamers without risking the stability of the OS for everyone else. Ubuntu developers are considering the creation of a brand new ‘official’ PPA to distribute the latest closed-source NVIDIA binary drivers to desktop users.
Installing the latest upstream NVIDIA graphics driver on Ubuntu could be about to get much easier. Ubuntu Gamers are on the rise -and so is demand for the latest drivers