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GNOME Software To Better Support NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver


As a planned change for Fedora 41, Red Hat engineers are working on upstream GNOME Software better supporting the NVIDIA proprietary driver installation by allowing the installation to work gracefully with UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems.

The NVIDIA drivers were removed from the GNOME Software app center since it didn't work well with Secure Boot enabled systems. Red Hat's Milan Crha recently opened this merge request for upstream GNOME Software to ease the installation of the akmods key into MOK for apps like the NVIDIA drivers, so that it will work in Secure Eobot enabled environments. Milan explained there:"Currently, to trigger the code (apart of enable build of it, which is disabled by default), the app needs a flag that it requires the akmods key to be installed.

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