I understand that. What I meant was I was not happy with having to go out of my way to download other drivers. My apologies - I realized my previous comment was not very clear. Also, thank you for the dkms explanation. :)

I’ve been in linux for a short while already, but this is the first time I’ve used debian with an nvidia gpu. It’s…a bit different from what I’ve experienced with arch on my laptops (probably because they don’t have a discrete gpu).

Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into this.

Edit: yeah, I wasn’t too happy with having to get the propriety drivers from nvidia myself.

That’s definitely possible. I’m not familiar with Bazzite. Did you get those drivers from Nvidia’s website? That’s my only issue with Debian 13 right now. Everything else is working as expected. Also the reason I had to get the drivers from the website is somehow I couldn’t enable some stuff (like amd-pstate) on the default Bookworm kernel and had to use a backported one (custom kernels don’t work with the drivers from apt).

Something similar happens to me on my desktop (debian 13) - it goes black then brings me back to the login screen. But in my case it’s probably the nvidia drivers (proprietary). Not certain, though. Still happy on X11 for the meantime.