Luckily not [1]. 1: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-x11-graphics-card...

amelius · on Oct 16, 2021

That's because someone already did the porting and testing for you. But what if you want the latest video and CUDA drivers?

joepie91_ · on Oct 16, 2021

"not afraid to fuck up anything" likely refers more to the ability to rollback the system to any (non-deleted) previous revision of the system configuration, directly from the bootloader, which means you can easily recover even from a broken kernel.

This applies regardless of whether you are packaging/updating something in the package set yourself, or using something that someone else packaged.

Apaec · on Oct 16, 2021

> That's because someone already did the porting and testing for you

The same happens on all package managers...

amelius · on Oct 17, 2021

No, you can get the installer directly from the NVidia website, but only for selected platforms. If you're on a different platform, you'll have to wait until somebody ported (read: hacked) the release (or do it yourself).