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Whenever I try to install any Nvidia driver for my GTX 1070 on Linux Mint with Cinnamon, it can't open the file using "the Western (ISO08859-15) character encoding. I don't know what this means. Whenever I try to change the "character encoding" to the only other option, (Current Locale UTF-8) it doesn't work either. No download I have seen has worked to fix this. Please help. On my laptop, every Linux distro I've tried "just werks" but on my desktop, everything is a pain in the ass like this.
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Mint fucking sucks
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>>57198782
Thanks for the help! :^)
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>>57198758
Mint is a bastardization of Ubuntu and often has problems like you're facing. I was using Mint up to 17.1 and had a similar issue. My 980ti wasn't giving me full native resolution. (1440p).
I went to standard Ubunutu 16.04 (MATE Desktop Environment) and everything just werked. Have you tried a different version of Linux. In all honesty it might just be a driver issue and won't be fixed for some time.
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>>57198800
Well mint geniunely sucks so that's as much as we're going to help.
Use something else, hopefully not debian related or manjaro.
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>>57198833
I prefer Cinnamon to most DEs that I've seen. How is Ubuntu compared to Mint? I tried it with Unity and thought it was awful.
>>57198857
Why not Debian? And what's wrong with Manjaro?
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Also, does anyone here know what the fuck "character encoding" is?
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try memedora with cinnamon installed and report back
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https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=225870
one of the reasons Mint and Ubuntu are good is there are a shitload of people using them and almost every issue is a google search away from being fixed
people knocking mint because of driver issue as if he would have LESS issues on some distro like Arch
please
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>>57198991
posted wrong link
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=117643
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>>57198872
Install Ubuntu 16.04 form the mini ISO then install cinnamon
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>>57198758
Did you just try to open .run file with text editor? kek
You have something called "additional drivers" or something like that on mint
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>>57198881
You must be kidding...
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>>57198758
>>57200160
Holy fuck, he really tried opening the .run file he downloaded from the nvidia website in a text editor.
Mint babies are supposed to click through the settings menu and choose outdated nvidia kernel modules from there.
>not using a pacman based distro and simply runningsudo pacman -S nvidia{,-settings} {,lib32-}nvidia{-libgl,-utils}
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>>57198758
Use Manjaro, it's very Nvidia friendly.
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>>57200377
Any arguments?
Of course not.
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>>57200419
I've ran Manjaro with my GTX 760 for about 2 years now and I haven't ran into any problems with Nvidia's driver.
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