New "Additional Drivers" location not discoverable

Brandon Watkins bwat47 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 15:39:43 UTC 2012


I've seen quite a few new ubuntu users having a lot of trouble finding the
correct place to install proprietary drivers in ubuntu 12.10, since it was
moved into software sources.

"Software Sources" doesn't really mean anything to a novice user and they
do not think to look there to install their proprietary drivers.

When they can't find how to install their drivers via the gui, they google,
find some outdated commandline instructions,  bork their system, and then
complain how hard it is to install drivers in ubuntu.

It should somehow be made more obvious and discoverable where to get
nvidia/ati drivers.
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