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I went to the driver page and found what I thought I needed, and downloaded. I don't know what rpm is... my old pc is 32bit, so I picked that one.
But, when i open the file, it doesn't do anything? It's text...
I appreciate you guys helping someone like me, but keep in mind, I'm really dumb about computers, so I might be making mistakes that you'd never think of-
At first, Ubuntu 12.04 is not outdated, it is a LTS version and supported until 2017.
Regarding the Nvidia driver, don't use what you have downloaded. Start the "Additional Drivers" program instead and use that to install the correct driver, this is the recommended way.
I tried to start with the command line, but it said it wasn't installed. I folled the instructions to install, but again, it didn't work for some reason.
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