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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Bazzite has a build for the older proprietary nvidia drivers, I'm pretty sure 1080s dont get the open source variant of the driver unfortunately 😔

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

https://download.bazzite.gg/bazzite-nvidia-stable-amd64.iso this is the download for the proprietary nvidia kde iso

https://download.bazzite.gg/bazzite-gnome-nvidia-stable-amd64.iso this one is for gnome

I don't know how well the proprietary driver runs, I assume if you got it running on another linux distro this will work fine

[–] Entertain529@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! I am still very new to Linux and have been learning the OS through OpenSUSE on an old laptop. Still debating which Linux distro to switch to for the windows desktop (the one with the 1080)

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

Could try dual booting to see how your hardware works