News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
NVIDIA GeForce Now added official Linux support yesterday via Flatpak package! Here’s the step by step guide shows you how to manually install or remove it in Ubuntu and other Linux.
GeForce Now is NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service streams high-end PC games to laptops, phones, and TVs, allowing for better gaming experience without requiring high-end hardware.
NVIDIA VA-API Driver, the VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as backend, released new 0.0.15 version yesterday.
For those who don’t know about it, it’s a free open-source API for NVIDIA users to enable hardware accelerated video decoding support when using Firefox web browser.
For NVIDIA users, the latest nvidia-590 driver will be soon available for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 25.10 and next Ubuntu 26.04.
NVIDIA 590.48.01 is the latest feature branch driver for Linux that was released almost one month ago. Ubuntu community is now building it into the multiverse repository.
NVIDIA 590, the next new feature branch driver for Linux, is available for beta testing.
This beta driver is NVIDIA 590.44.01, which however does not introduce any new features, but raised the minimum system library requirements and fixed some bugs.
NVIDIA 580.105.08, a new point release for the latest production branch driver for Linux, was released yesterday.
This is the 5th release in the NVIDIA 580 series. It introduced a new environment variable and fixed various bugs.
For Linux users with NVIDIA graphics card, the new 580 production branch driver got a new update few days ago!
It’s NVIDIA 580.95.05, the third stable release in this driver series. Like the last one, it introduced only one but important new feature, and fixed few bugs.
For user with NVIDIA graphics card, Ubuntu finally added official NVIDIA 580 driver packages for all current Ubuntu releases.
As you may know, NVIDIA 580 is so far the latest driver series for Linux, that was initially released one month ago. It’s a production branch driver qualified for enterprise and data center GPU use.
For NVIDIA users with GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs (e.g., 4060, 4090), it finally supports Smooth Motion frame generation for better gaming performance in Linux.
NVIDIA Smooth Motion is a feature designed for games without native DLSS support. It uses AI to generate additional frames between two rendered frames for overall smoothness of game-play.
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Just a week and one day after the Beta release, NVIDIA announced 580.76.05 as the latest production branch driver for Linux.
As a production ready driver series, Ubuntu will likely provide the official packages for all current supported releases, e.g., Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04.
For NVIDIA users, the latest 575 series driver has been made into Ubuntu repository. Meaning you need a third-party PPA any more.
NVIDIA 575 so far is the latest feature branch Linux driver that improved performance for gaming and power management.
