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Where am I supposed to get them then?
depends on your Distro, for Linux Mint it's just the Driver Manager.
To access the Driver Manager in Linux Mint, follow these steps:
Once you have opened the Driver Manager, follow these steps to install the Nvidia drivers:
Then reboot.
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For most problems you can really just google stuff like "Linux Mint Nvidia Drivers"
From you distros package manager
Whatever distro you pick will have instructions for where and how to install the drivers, if it doesn't do so for you during the install. Ubuntu is probably most likely to do so easiest. I prefer Fedora for other reasons, which is also easy to get nvidia working, but sightly less easy than Ubuntu where it's a single checkbox during OS install.
If you happen to choose OpenSUSE, the " install recommends " will detect nVidia and load some drivers to get it working, but you can also add a specific repo nVidia hosts for Leap and Tumbleweed and download the Drivers / Cuda etc. They work great, so ignore the previous commentor. Laptops with dual GPU need you to setup a switching app to save power, when you don't need to power the nVidia. If your BIOS has a discrete graphics mode selection, you can choose hybrid, but if your OS has trouble you can set it to discrete only so nVidia is always used. I had to do this on one machine because the OS saw the two GPUs and was trying to treat them has two displays instead of one composite display choice
Each distro has it's own way of installing the drivers, Mint uses a driver Manager GUI, endeavour OS uses the nvidia-inst script, but ultimately, they come the repositories of the distro.