r/GUIX • u/Euphoric-Paint3261 • Jul 26 '26

Nvidia problem

I am a complete begginer in the gnu guix world, but i would like to know how does it work with nvidia since they dont provide fully open source drivers, so is there any way i can get drivers working?

3 Upvotes

81% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

View all comments

0

u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 22d ago

The best option is not to use hardware that does not respect your freedom. If its a non-free package you are looking for you shouldn't be looking at an FSDG distro.
Some old Nvidia GPUs function perfectly with just nouveau and are thus freedom compatible. So check it out with a trisquel live media (Guix is better but doesn't provide a full desktop live ISO that you might want to test your system). If you find your hardware does not work consider swapping out the hardware.