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Boot live USB with Nvidia drivers enabled [workaround found]

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heqro
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Hello, this may sound like a weird question, but hear me out

For some reason, my computer will just freeze (forever) each and every Linux distribution I put on it for as long as I don't boot with the Nvidia drivers enabled. I don't want to troubleshoot it at all, because I don't want to compromise my old device's health by force rebooting every time it happens (it happens after mildly interacting with the desktop, ranging from moving the mouse to closing a window) and I already know the workaround, so I don't mind too much about it happening with nouveau drivers.

Some distros allow to do so (like Zorin, Manjaro or Pop!_OS), but I've had absolutely zero luck with Ubuntu and derivatives.

I'm wondering if there's any particular way to boot a KDE Neon live USB with those drivers enabled, as well as -obviously- putting them into my device after the install.

Cheers

Last edited by heqro on Mon Aug 31, 2020 5:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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robgriff444
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KDE is not responsible for this, it's down to Ubuntu. Here's something that may help:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/69432/l ... ext=Create a Live USB instead of a Live,reuse it. It effectively becomes a portalable Ubuntu.


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Welp, your answer is well past the effort I want to go through. I found out with that workaround I didn't care that much about KDE Neon. Thank you anyway. I'll stick with other options for now.


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