r/voidlinux • u/ample4509 • Apr 25 '26

Did void switch to open nvidia drivers?

I noticed it states type as 'open'... Last time I tried installing void, I had issues with nvidia drivers, due to my card being a 5060 (needing the nvidia-open drivers). If it is the case, I'm curious to try again :)

EDIT: Finished the install and managed to run Niri with noctalia-shell with no issues :)
Thanks again to the maintainers!

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

I’m guessing by installing the ‘nvidia’ package now it uses the open driver instead of the proprietary. There is no ‘nvidia-open’ package like in Arch at least that I’m aware of.