Comment 5 for bug 2027914

I believe with dkms, you need a C compiler and related tools, so that the nvidia kernel module can be built on your machine during kernel / driver updates. So that probably means more packages have to be installed. It might also be a bit more error-prone?

I'm not sure if it could affect secure boot in some way, I believe there is some mechanism to self-sign the modules after building them. I don't use secure boot.

So it's not a huge issue. I do prefer using the pre-built kernel modules from linux-modules-nvidia-* though. Currently, I'm on 6.2.0-24 and nvidia-525 which seems to work without dkms and without issues. When a new linux-restricted-modules package like 6.2.0-27.28 is published, I'll try to update to nividia-535.