Speaking of Nvidia: yes. That thing has been a source of pain... about once or twice. For Ubuntu-based distros, the command you want is (give or take a
sudo):
ubuntu-drivers install
autoinstall is deprecated, just run
install without args; it'll install the proprietary Nvidia drivers for you, and hopefully it works. Hopefully. I run a card 3 generations old, you may not be quite so lucky.
Since I set my country to [REDACTED] during install, I had issues where SDDM would end up displaying the localized time and date on the login screen, but everything else was in English. This is undesirable behavior for me (rather not dox myself if I hook up a capture card to this thing), so I had to call on Google for answers.
Here's the Stack Overflow question about that. SSDM reads from
LC_TIME within
/etc/default/locale, edit that to solve. I went with the
update-locale method, I did:
update-locale LC_TIME='en_US.UTF-8'
Not sure if UTF-8 was the Right Thing here, but eh, it works. Maybe my knowledge of UTF-8 support in Linux is desperately outdated, I just like UTF-8. SDDM now displays my time and date in English.
Motherboard audio didn't work at first. This is mostly my fault; I didn't plug in the front panel HD Audio header at first. Shut off the PC, removed the GPU, plugged in the header, rebooted... and all I saw was HDMI audio out.
Fun. I'll save you the trouble of futzing around with
aplay and
pamixer, and just immediately tell you this:
Motherboard audio devices don't show up
until after you plug them in. Don't be like me. Please plug in audio devices as you'd use them before you go on a wild Stack Overflow-assisted goose chase across the desktop environment and terminal in a desperate attempt to find where the hell your audio devices went.