2026-09-01 13:55 UTC
Nvidia driver update confusion. What should I do?
Once a week, or so, this shows up. In the past, when I have simply let it happen, not every time, but more than once, after the update, Blender is borked, and I need to Timeshift back to before the update. I have no way to know if updating will screw Blender without just trying, which is annoying. AFAIK, I have no issues with the video drivers the way they are. What I’ve been doing recently is setting to “ignore once”. Is there some reason I shouldn’t just set these to ignore always? Will I regret doing that in a year or five?
Thank you.
Replies (4)
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@gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-01 14:03
Well, I don’t think it’s a big deal at all. Just ignore them, and if at some point (in 5 years possibly, I don’t know) you start seeing some graphical issues or Blender stops working, update then.
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@potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 2026-09-01 14:05
It seems it still has the old drivers on the flatpak sandboxes. Maybe this could help, updating the runtime drivers to match your updated drivers and remove the not used ones: flatpak update -y && flatpak remove --unused -y
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@dr_jekell@lemmy.world 2026-09-01 14:06
Most of those are updates to the flatpack base software. It is unlikely to cause any issues updating them.
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@Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-01 18:34
Do not use Flatpack, it causes more problems than it solves, especially if you don’t know what you are doing