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I was following this tutorial to install GPU driver for my Nvidia GTX 1070 graphic card on my Alienware laptop. To check the recommended driver version, I used this command:

ubuntu-drivers devices

and also tried this:

sudo ubuntu-drivers devices

But both gave me nothing in return, like this:

george@DESKTOP:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices
george@DESKTOP:~$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
[sudo] password for george:
george@DESKTOP:~$

Here are the things I've tried:

  • Disabled secure boot as suggested here
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
  • sudo apt install nvidia-settings

Could this be a Windows Subsystem for Linux specific issue? Maybe Ubuntu doesn't have enough privilege on Windows? Any help is appreciated.

George Liu
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It turns out that GPU is not supported through Windows Subsystem for Linux yet:

Does Ubuntu for windows have GPU support?

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