How to Install Nvidia Drivers on AlmaLinux

I hosted this short tutorial for the official AlmaLinux YouTube channel covering how to install Nvidia drivers on AlmaLinux 10, one of those setup steps that trips people up if they have not done it before.

The short version of why this matters: AMD and Intel GPUs work out of the box on Linux using open source Mesa drivers. Nvidia does not. Getting full GPU performance and CUDA support requires installing proprietary drivers separately, and the process used to involve enough manual steps that it was a common pain point for anyone setting up a machine learning or rendering workload.

The video walks through the whole process, updating the system and rebooting to the latest kernel first, enabling the official AlmaLinux Nvidia driver repository, installing the driver and kernel module packages, and then verifying the install with a quick sanity check. CUDA tools for GPU computing get covered at the end for anyone going that route. No manual downloads, no messy installers.

Watch on YouTube: How to Install Nvidia Drivers on AlmaLinux

Short-form tutorial content like this is something I enjoy producing because the goal is simple: get someone unstuck and moving in under five minutes.