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Nvidia’s finally replacing GeForce Experience with this all-in-one ‘Nvidia app’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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RIP Gamestream?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

How about just let us download our fucking drivers through a regular package manager like all our other updates you privacy raping shit gibbons?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does this not work for you? Seems simple enough.

https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Definitely better than GeForce Experience but not exactly what I'm talking about either.

[+] [email protected] -20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Damn, who shit in your cornflakes this morning?

Their drivers have always been available directly from their website.

This app is just for Windows, I’m not sure why you’re blabbing on about package managers

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Windows has 3 package managers. Chocolatey and scoop are third party while winget ia supported by Microsoft. There's even a 3rd party made winget gui that interacts with all package managers. BTW, you can download windows store apps through the package manager, and shocker, it installs faster then from the store.

So yeah, having nvidia drivers through any of the package managers would be cool.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’m well aware of these. Winget is a disaster of a package manager. All of them just download and run conventional installers with none of the tidiness you get with real package managers on systems actually designed for them. It’s fun watching winget update an app that already updated itself. Do any other GPU vendors typically distribute their drivers through winget?

But the real answer here is Windows Update, which Nvidia does publish drivers through. But not game ready versions, only WHQL certified builds.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

Not really nvidia's fault no one bothered doing it for windows users. I mean it sucks for gamers but nvidia hasn't cared about this market segment for a while now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nvidia shit in my cornflakes, obviously.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

by….not putting their driver on winget?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Let's not pretend like they aren't pushing people to use their data harvesting app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I haven't used it since it was released. It's literally unchecked by default in the driver installer.