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Isn’t this part of the (awful) GeForce experience app? You can still just download drivers directly from the Nvidia webpage without logging in.

• tony 7y ago
  Yes, plain drivers are available: http://www.geforce.com/drivers http://www.geforce.com/drivers That said, Windows 10 driver handling already handles the basic drivers out of the box (at least for me) Generally though, these manufacturers have their own driver / bios update software that 1.) creates additional background / tray apps 2.) autostarts 3.) offers implicitly to download extra "helpful", "optional" software Examples of software where all three happens: Fujitsu ScanSnap, Gigabyte Aorus Motherboard, Lenovo Advantage So now there's a passive, consistent performance loss on the system, a tray icon hogging up space, "helpful" notifications, and unsolicited popups not offering driver updates, but to download additional software (box is already checked) One nice thing about Linux/BSD desktops is even when Nvidia did proprietary stuff, the most you'd see back in the day is an Nvidia logo when starting X (editing xorg.conf could disable it)
  • vbezhenar 7y ago
    I bought Lenovo laptop few days ago and installed fresh Windows. Then I enabled WiFi and left it for a hour. It installed ALL drivers including Nvidia drivers and Nvidia control panel. I checked driver versions with Lenovo support page and every driver was fresh. Windows did awesome work with automatically installing drivers. Nvidia driver was not fresh, I think it was from July, 22, 2019, but I don't think that it's that old anyway. So for ordinary users Windows does very good job at installing drivers and I would recommend against doing anything by hand, unless absolutely necessary.