

In some cases, you may see some substantial improvements overall. In most situations, upgrading your Nvidia Drivers using the following guide is more beneficial than not doing it. Historically, the Nouveau proprietary drivers are slower than Nvidia’s proprietary drivers, along with lacking the newest features, software technology, and support for the latest graphics card hardware.

For the most part, this is acceptable however, if you are using your Linux system for graphical design or gaming, you may get better drivers. Most modern Linux Desktop systems such as Linux Mint come with an Nvidia driver pre-installed in the Nouveau open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards.
