Moreover, Canonical’s Jorge Castro noted in Ubuntu Desktop mailing list: It will take few more days before it could be termed usable. First thing first, the PPA is in testing phase. There is no clarity if other graphics card, AMD for example, will be included in future or not. For now it’s only NvidiaĪs mentioned on Launchpad page, the PPA ships only Nvidia for now. This ensures stability of the system in general and at the same time provides a way for other interested users to use the latest graphics drivers. The more stable graphics drivers will still be available in Additional Drivers section. Yes! The official PPA has a motive and the motive is to provide fresh, latest upstream graphics drivers to the users who want it (read gamers).
This problem is finally being addressed by Ubuntu team that has just launched an official PPA for Proprietary GPU Drivers. This leaves Linux users struggling with older drivers.
Often manufacturer do not release the drivers for Linux at the same time as Windows. Many other graphic cards too have issues with Linux and it often revolves around drivers. Closed source Nvidia drivers have been an issue in Linux for a long time and the lack of willingness to support Linux prompted Linus Torvalds to use F word for Nvidia. Ubuntu and Nvidia doesn’t go hand in hand and it’s an open secret.
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