Windows has 3 package managers. Chocolatey and scoop are third party while winget ia supported by Microsoft. There's even a 3rd party made winget gui that interacts with all package managers. BTW, you can download windows store apps through the package manager, and shocker, it installs faster then from the store.

So yeah, having nvidia drivers through any of the package managers would be cool.

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I’m well aware of these. Winget is a disaster of a package manager. All of them just download and run conventional installers with none of the tidiness you get with real package managers on systems actually designed for them. It’s fun watching winget update an app that already updated itself. Do any other GPU vendors typically distribute their drivers through winget?

But the real answer here is Windows Update, which Nvidia does publish drivers through. But not game ready versions, only WHQL certified builds.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu -2 points 8 months ago

Not really nvidia's fault no one bothered doing it for windows users. I mean it sucks for gamers but nvidia hasn't cared about this market segment for a while now