SUMMARY The driver manager that comes bundled with Kubuntu's old or doesn't work, and Neon doesn't have one. It'd be great if Discover can be the one-stop shop to manage drivers and firmwares in Linux running on Plasma or LXQt or anything that has Discover installed. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.13.0-39-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × AMD EPYC-Milan Processor Memory: 7.8 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: llvmpipe ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Yes, GPU says I'm using Llvmpipe, but I have a GTX 1060
It already can, if the drivers in question have AppStream metadata. They do on many distros. I'm on Fedora 35 right now, and if I search for "nvidia" I get the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, right there. If you don't see that, bug your distro to add AppStream metadata for drivers. Your distro is Neon, but it's just a thin shell around Ubuntu, so you would want to ask them. Of course Ubuntu is a bit of a black hole these days... :(
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > It already can, if the drivers in question have AppStream metadata. They do > on many distros. I'm on Fedora 35 right now, and if I search for "nvidia" I > get the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, right there. If you don't see that, bug > your distro to add AppStream metadata for drivers. > > Your distro is Neon, but it's just a thin shell around Ubuntu, so you would > want to ask them. Of course Ubuntu is a bit of a black hole these days... :( I knew that. I saw a post on Twitter about that. What I'm talking about is a driver manager that'll detect the hardware that's installed in the system and the software will attempt to find the relevant drivers for it (i.e. Realtek drivers for WiFi/Bluetooth modules/USB adapters)