hello , i am a new user of cachyos , i come from win10 , i have a nvidia rtx 3050 GPU , it works perfectly for now , but i want to ask if “ sudo pacman -Syu “ installs the last nvidia drivers for my card when i update or if i need to do something else ? if yes please give me the command or the manip…

If you haven’t manually changed anything about your drivers, you should not need to do anything. You can check the current version of your driver, package, etc in various ways: # Nvidia utility that shows driver version and many other details: nvidia-smi # Ask pacman "what packages are installed m…

Hey Fred, have a look here: [image] (Announcement) Maintenance Notice: NVIDIA Driver Restructuring (580xx/590xx Repository If you never changed something after the installation on your NVIDIA Drivers then you do not have to do anything!! To facilitate the intr…

thank you for your answer , yes i saw this post , but i really don t know what i am doing and linux is a lot to learn for a windows user of 35 years like me , i don t know what the rtx 3050 is , i dont know how nvidia drivers work on linux , i installed cachyos last month and for now it works very w…

if i understand welll , the rtx 3050 is not a 10 series so i should type in my terminal “ sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos-nvidia-open linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia-open nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings “ ? i really don t want to break anything , it s working…

but it says “If you never changed something after the installation on your NVIDIA Drivers then you do not have to do anything!! “ so i don t know what to do , that s why i came to the forum , i am sorry my name should be “ Not Sure” like idiocracy -_-

thank you for this detailled response , i guess i will do nothing as i did nothing since the installation of cachyos last month , i find it fantastic that a linux distribution is caring about gamers , that s why i chose cachyos ^ ^ drivers version is 590.48.01 so i guess -Syu did it s job of keepin…

My pleasure, and welcome to Linux :slight_smile: I’m new to Cachy myself, but left Windows behind for good back when Win 8 came out. It’s a steep learning curve at first, but you get there eventually. And it’s well worth it.

[image] 013_fred: now i am sure thank you very much Sir ! Hi and welcome to the forum. If you feel your question was answered correctly, please consider checking the “Solution” checkbox, so the thread-title is marked as solved and the solution will appear directly under your question. PS: I …

New on cachyos , trying to understand how nvidia drivers works

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mad January 4, 2026, 1:17am 2

Hey Fred, have a look here: