In general, drivers shouldn't be manually downloaded from a vendor. The drivers should be loaded using the APT or Canonical package manager. Since 18.04, LTS releases have made loading nvidia drivers for supported cards pretty easy. There's an "
Additional Drivers" button inside the Software Updater, whatever it is named on your system. This will get what you need for that nvidia card, since it is relatively new. I have a nvidia 1030 and it works fine. My older 7200 GS isn't supported by nvidia anymore, so I'm stuck using the F/LOSS drivers.
There is also a CLI method ... run:
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
That should search the hardware, determine which proprietary drivers are available, then install those as needed. Works for nvidia, IME.
Before doing this, be certain to run:
sudo apt update so the current software locations for all packages are known to the system.
You may want to run sudo apt full-upgrade before doing the ubuntu-drivers command.
For other maintenance stuff all Linux desktops need, check this article:
https://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/06/24/sy...-for-linux-pcs updated for 2020.
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