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  • Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro
  • Oh I know about alpine, sadly it didn't "click" the same way void did and felt more like a distro to use in embedded systems or similar space constrained situations. Gentoo on the other hand I like, but the initial setup + waiting for stuff to compile put me off of it. Maybe I'll try it again sometime with all precompiled packages.

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    [SOLVED] Question about flatpak, nvidia drivers and steam

    Edit: So after an exciting evening of uninstalling drivers, rebooting, playing a round of CSGO and starting over, I can report that nothing is broken. I haven't tried much other than a handful of games though. In the end I removed the drivers in batches, uninstalling all versions of a major version together (all 515.\, then 520.\, then 525.\* etc).

    Of note is that all the drivers I removed were the 32 bit versions, since the 64 bit one updated properly. This is what's left of the drivers, I believe these are all actually needed and I'm not comfortable removing any of them (and even if they're not needed the space savings would be minimal anyway): Name Application ID Version Branch Origin Installation Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.1.1 22.08 flathub system Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 23.1.1 22.08-extra flathub system nvidia-535-54-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-535-54-03 1.4 flathub system Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 23.1.1 22.08 flathub system Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 23.1.1 22.08-extra flathub system nvidia-535-54-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03 1.4 flathub system

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    Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows why flatpak keeps tons of Nvidia driver versions installed. Currently on my Fedora install I have: Name Application ID Version Branch Origin Installation nvidia-510-68-02 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02 1.4 flathub system nvidia-515-57 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-57 1.4 flathub system nvidia-515-65-01 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-65-01 1.4 flathub system nvidia-515-76 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-515-76 1.4 flathub system nvidia-520-56-06 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-520-56-06 1.4 flathub system nvidia-525-60-11 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-60-11 1.4 flathub system nvidia-525-78-01 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-78-01 1.4 flathub system nvidia-525-85-05 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-85-05 1.4 flathub system nvidia-525-89-02 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-525-89-02 1.4 flathub system nvidia-530-41-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-530-41-03 1.4 flathub system nvidia-535-54-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-54-03 1.4 flathub system

    A few months ago, when a new Nvidia update came out, usually what I'd do is update then run flatpak uninstall --unused, which would get rid of the older version no problem. As you can see, around driver version 510 this stopped working. If I try to remove them manually with eg. flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02, I get this: Info: applications using the extension org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-510-68-02 branch 1.4: com.valvesoftware.Steam Really remove? [y/n]: My question is, is Steam actually using these drivers? Are these safe to remove? I'd like to get rid of them since they're bloating my root partition and updating 10 driver versions takes ages.

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