I am concerned that if I update our system it may crash. I have recently experienced this on another computer system and although it was not running Fedora (it was Solus), it broke the system.
I know it was the drivers for the video card that caused this. Is there anyway to delay the GPU driver update or bypass this part of the update?
Timeshift itself is just a backup tool (does incremental backups).
What you need as well is something that takes a backup before running the dnf upgrade commmand and something that creates a grub entry for restoring those backups.
Rpm Fusion nvidia drivers I have been updating for years and they are fine ! RPM fusion offers great stable drivers and won’t land if they are unstable. I am currently using latest ones from RPm Fusion and that too with Optimus setting primary drivers to be these nvidia ones ! But still if you think its risky you can exclude them from updating
When it crashed last time I updated the GPU drivers I was running linux mint, then it crashed again running solus, now for half a year i’ve been running fedora with no problems. It’s a very old GPU as you can see.
If “lsmod | grep nvidia” shows more than a single line then the proprietary nvidia drivers are in use. OTOH if “lsmod | grep nouveau” shows several lines then the open source nouveau drivers are in use.
What you posted there shows the nvidia driver version 460.39 in use.
That card is supported by the current driver so until nvidia changes that driver, then yes, you will still get updates. As long as you stay on fedora and use the rpmfusion repo the updates will be available.