The text isn't wrong regarding the package description itself, but it is
outdated as a label for the driver stack. Since software-properties-gtk
builds this list from the output of the ubuntu-drivers Python API, the
fix belongs in ubuntu-drivers-common rather than the UI.
ubuntu-drivers assumes the legacy X.org DDX driver (xserver-xorg-video-
nouveau) is the representative for the open-source driver. On modern
stacks, this package is often irrelevant.
However, we can't simply point the tool to a "modern" package because
the actual components (like libdrm-nouveau2 or libgl1-mesa-dri) have
highly technical descriptions that are not user-friendly.
So I suggest we modify ubuntu-drivers to special-case the Nouveau/Mesa
driver. Instead of scraping metadata from a proxy package, it should
return a user-friendly string (maybe "Nouveau Open Source Driver")
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Additional Drivers mentions Xorg with the Nouveau driver option
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