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Great…now I need an account just to set my display resolution. How long until the 4k setting costs 5$ a month?

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The new app has fewer account requirements than the one it is replacing. With GFE, you needed an account just to get automatic driver updates. With the new app, you can do just about anything except redeem free bundled games without an account.

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That a lot of doom and gloom for someone that obviously doesn’t even know what it does.

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Please drink verification can to continue.

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This reminds me of when I used to run windows.

Linux doesnt do this shit. :)

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No one cares

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Nvidia shit in my cornflakes, obviously.

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by….not putting their driver on winget?

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Does this not work for you? Seems simple enough.

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

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

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Imagine if your GPU drivers just updated through your package manager. We could have so much automated shit but Nvidia needs tk collect your personal data so heres a web page disguised ss an app. I fucken hate this shit.

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To be fair, they do on Windows.

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Only WHQL drivers though and it’s slow to get onto the WSUS catalog

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Because they require extra certification from Microsoft.

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if nvidia spent as much time on their drivers as they do on their failed software attempts the drivers might actually work

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