As above switched to Linux and i am enjoying it i picked Ubuntu as TBH it was the first I came across. The last two times it has prompted me to update has caused a drama. First would only give me a black screen of text so I did a reinstall.

The latest one went fine it updated to 6.17.0-94 but i lost all networking no wifi By the looks of it the problem I have is i have an older device that has nvidia 580 graphics card. I have rolled back for now but questions are;

Is there a way to pre-emt this, as i feel now as soon as i restart it will jump back up and leave me without networking to resolve. its quite a faff trying to find out what to do on my mobile and typing it in the terminal.

Is it better to fix or try another distro?

  • Cherry@piefed.socialOP
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    2 hours ago

    Not altered anything just saw the pop up for update now…which i did and all looked to be fine, aside from the no networking.

    I tried the install extras option and that’s when i got the 580 errors. I might be wrong that they are the problem.

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      11 minutes ago

      Also, do you NEED the Nvidia drivers? Are you gaming and trying to squeeze every last bit or is it just a display output? Cause if it’s the latter the open source nouveau drivers will work just fine with that card.