![]() ![]() There’s also Nvidia’s proprietary driver, which many distributions like Manjaro, Pop OS and Ubuntu flavors now include as an option during OS installation. For watching videos, browsing the web and just getting a display up and running, this is perfectly good. There’s the open source and community-maintained “Nouveau” driver, which is included in the kernel. ![]() On Linux there are two very different drivers for Nvidia GeForce users. Part 1b: Getting The Right Nvidia Graphics Driver OK Radeon users, you should be good to go! Sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 To be absolutely sure you have them, just fire up Terminal and type: These are included in the proprietary Nvidia driver, but Radeon users will need to download the libraries manually. These are needed to run many of those Windows games via Steam’s Proton (aka Steam Play) because it translates Microsoft’s DirectX API to Vulkan, which Linux can understand. Now, the bad news: Unlike Pop OS, Linux Mint 19.2’s Steam package is not modified to automatically install the 64-bit and 32-bit Vulkan libraries. Simple and useful: Linux Mint's Kernel Updater Jason Evangelho
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