I had it screw my system so hard it didn’t boot and I had to use the installer to uninstall the driver and boot with the generic one. A couple days later it broke steam and the advice on the arch forums was to downgrade, which I did (to a version before the one that didn’t let me boot).
Now here I am, with an nvidia driver that’s intentionally outdated because the current version is broken. Just like on windows.
Did you end up figuring out a solution? Nvidia does make things more difficult than they should. If you haven’t already, and you comfortable installing from the AUR, Timeshift is a great snapshot/recovery tool with a gui option. You can pair it with timeshift-autosnap, which will automatically create Timeshift snapshots before you upgrade any package with pacman. If you ever bork your system and can’t boot into your system, just throw in a live USB, recover from your snapshot, and be back up and running in minutes.
After two weeks on arch, nvidia driver updates have broken shit twice already.
But that’s the arch way and I chose the arch way.
In 5 years on arch I have never had an nvidia driver update break anything.
I had it screw my system so hard it didn’t boot and I had to use the installer to uninstall the driver and boot with the generic one. A couple days later it broke steam and the advice on the arch forums was to downgrade, which I did (to a version before the one that didn’t let me boot).
Now here I am, with an nvidia driver that’s intentionally outdated because the current version is broken. Just like on windows.
I always thought it might be hardware related. So far i have always bought AMD cards and had no issues.
Did you end up figuring out a solution? Nvidia does make things more difficult than they should. If you haven’t already, and you comfortable installing from the AUR, Timeshift is a great snapshot/recovery tool with a gui option. You can pair it with timeshift-autosnap, which will automatically create Timeshift snapshots before you upgrade any package with pacman. If you ever bork your system and can’t boot into your system, just throw in a live USB, recover from your snapshot, and be back up and running in minutes.