Comment 125 for bug 760632

I manually installed the latest nvidia driver from their site and got an error that the kernel module was mismatched with the nvidia driver version. My display manger wouldn't even start until I purged and reinstalled the problematic version of nvidia again. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/37590/nvidia-drivers-not-working-after-upgrade-why-can-i-only-see-terminal.

I don't know how you guys are doing it without all sorts of complications arising. It broke my system and now I am back to the offending version again. Now I'm scared to resize windows. This bug has been up for 5 months. Why hasn't the new driver been officially passed through to the official repositories?

Doing unofficial things break your system. Especially if you are not an expert and there is a lack of official guidance on issues like this. I have to trawl through forums and I don't feel comfortable having to perform changes that could break my system. I don't mind Debian being like this because they don't have any pretenses of being user friendly, but I expected more from Kubuntu. :(