Does Casuarina Linux support NVIDIA's propietary drivers? The reason I am not using Chimera is that you can't really run drivers in a distrobox or anything like that, so that's very important to me.
NVIDIA Support
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Re: NVIDIA Support
It does not currently. Due to the hassles with the proprietary driver I stopped buying any NVIDIA hardware back in 2019. Casuarina does theoretically make it possible to support, but that work would need to be contributed by someone else. q66 mentioned the other day:
and for nvidia drivers you need even more stuff like systemwide integration of glvnd and whatnot
So it's not just a simple matter of just packaging up the driver.
Re: NVIDIA Support
I think you can run nvidia GPL open kernel drivers, cause i actually did it, you just need to add environment variable, which sets nvidia run script for clang building, than you need to update initramfs and bootloader, as for me it has worked well