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ZorinOS 15.3 Education Lite on Dell XPS 8930 with nVidia GeForce GTX 1080

ZorinOS 15.3 Education Lite on Dell XPS 8930 with nVidia GeForce GTX 1080

This edition comes with the nice and lightweight XFCE desktop environment.
I just wanted to test the live version of it, to see how it behaves with the GeForce graphics cards that comes with this system.

zorin@zorin:~/.themes/ZorinGreen-Dark_alt$ uname -a
Linux zorin 5.4.0-45-generic #49~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 26 16:29:02 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
zorin@zorin:~/.themes/ZorinGreen-Dark_alt$ 
zorin@zorin:~/.themes/ZorinGreen-Dark_alt$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001B80sv00001028sd00003366bc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080]
driver   : nvidia-driver-450 - third-party non-free recommended
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

zorin@zorin:~/.themes/ZorinGreen-Dark_alt$ 
zorin@zorin:~/.themes/ZorinGreen-Dark_alt$ ubuntu-drivers list
nvidia-driver-450
zorin@zorin:~/.themes/ZorinGreen-Dark_alt$ 
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