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Steam requires BETA "Experimental" drivers. Is this safe?

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I've just installed Steam for Linux on my machine and I am given a error message telling me that my NVIDIA drivers are outdated. They tell me that I need the 304.?? drivers to continue. These are shown when I open "External Drivers", but they are shown as Experimental BETA.

Is it safe to activate them anyway. I mean; I don't want my computer to stop working and I have to reinstall Ubuntu.

If there is any other way I could get my Steam client to work I would really like to know that to.

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answered 2 Years ago ainubt · Accepted Answer

Please understand that Steam is under beta at the moment and requires features not present on the drivers supplied on the official repositories from Ubuntu.

Use at your best discretion and learn how to revert to previous drivers before upgrading them.

They should be considered stable-ish, in the end its up to you.