New NVIDIA card with F26?

[PropAAS DBA]

Hi All;

Apologies in advance for cross posting, I posted this question to the 
Fedora KDE list as well.

I just purchased the below system online from Lenovo, did a bit of 
research and it seems like it should all work but I cut the research 
short and ordered it mostly because I have a serious patience deficiency

My main question is around the NVIDIA card, for the past several years 
I've been running laptops with integrated intel graphics and the default 
nouveau driver and things 'just work'. I don't really need high 
performance graphics like gaming or high intensive graphics operations, 
just standard business usage.

Does anyone have any experience / insight per the below NVIDIA card and 
Fedora (I'll be running Fedora 26 - KDE Spin)?

Is it likely I'll need to run NVIDIA drivers? If so is there an easy 
setup without needing to install the native driver each time a new 
kernel is released? Maybe something like the akmod-nvidia drivers?

Also, is there anything in the below specs that may be cause for concern?

Thanks in advance for any advice...

*ThinkPad P51s Mobile Workstation*

Processor
Intel Core i7-7600U Processor (4MB Cache, up to 3.90GHz)

Camera
IR & 720p HD Camera with Microphone

Display
15.6" UHD (3840x2160), non-Touch, no WiGig, WLAN, WWAN

Video Card
NVIDIA Quadro M520 2GB GDDR5

Memory
32GB DDR4 2133MHz SoDIMM (16GBx2)

Hard Drive
1 TB Solid State Drive OPAL2.0 PCIe-NVMe

Wireless Card
Intel Dual Band Wireless AC(2x2) 8265, Bluetooth Version 4.1

Only because it was not an option to eliminate the mobile card:
Integrated Mobile Broadband upgradable

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/03/17 11:34, PropAAS DBA wrote:
> My main question is around the NVIDIA card, for the past several years I've been
> running laptops with integrated intel graphics and the default nouveau driver and
> things 'just work'. I don't really need high performance graphics like gaming or
> high intensive graphics operations, just standard business usage.
>
> Does anyone have any experience / insight per the below NVIDIA card and Fedora
> (I'll be running Fedora 26 - KDE Spin)?

No, but you can simply get the LiveDVD and give it a try.
> Is it likely I'll need to run NVIDIA drivers? If so is there an easy setup without
> needing to install the native driver each time a new kernel is released? Maybe
> something like the akmod-nvidia drivers?

One option, if you wan to use the nVidia drivers, is to use those supplied by
RPMfusion which does recompile the nVidia modules when a new kernel is installed.

[Joe Zeff]

On 11/02/2017 08:34 PM, PropAAS DBA wrote:
> My main question is around the NVIDIA card, for the past several years 
> I've been running laptops with integrated intel graphics and the default 
> nouveau driver and things 'just work'. I don't really need high 
> performance graphics like gaming or high intensive graphics operations, 
> just standard business usage.

Actually, you weren't using the nouveau driver because it's only used if 
you have an nVidia card and don't use the proprietary drivers.