@black3dynamite said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
For Ubuntu, Nvidia drivers can be installed by going to softare & updates application and then click on the additional drivers tab.
With Fedora Workstation you can enable the third party repositories. With the option to enable rpm fusion repo for Nvidia drivers.
With Ubuntu, I tried all of that first thing, the game still reported, "No driver found" or "Vulkan drivers need installed". This was after rebooting of course just to rule that question out.
I tried following several different guides after reinstalling and trying over again, no luck. The installs kept failing at different points. One specific point I can recall right now was building the DKMS Kernel Module.
Another issue it kept talking about the Noveau driver being installed so the install can't continue. Found a guide to disable and blacklist that driver, rebooted, installed nvidia driver again, install failed, but completed. Driver shows up under "Proprietary drivers in use", there were three nvidia drivers, game reported with each (after rebooting when switching) that no driver was found for display.
It went from fun and exciting to incredibly frustrating.
Now with Fedora, I did not know how to install the driver through the GUI at all and didn't know that was an option, I followed a recently released guide for installing the driver, switching to level 3 runtime, navigating to the driver, I followed every command and ran the install....Only to get an access denied error. I was running as 'su'...
So I ran the install as my logged in user credentials after rebooting, that worked. (Oh it only worked after running chmod -x on the driver a second time).
driver went through, built DKMS module, but it failed....No specific error, it just said it failed.
Since I blacklisted the Noveau driver already, I'm guessing, switching to runtime 5 did not produce a GUI, so I was stuck with just a command line.
Reinstalled Fedora, downloaded Windows 10 and reinstalled.
I am absolutely willing to try again, but perhaps when I have more time, I spent at least 12 hours trying to get my machine game ready.