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    11 months ago

    If they don’t use AMD then good luck, Nvidia is historically garbage on Linux. I’ve built my rig to be AMD only for the specific use case of gaming on Linux so it has been a fantastic experience for me.

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      11 months ago

      It’s really not that bad. I used Nvidia for something like 10 years on Linux and only recently switched to AMD. I was able to play games just fine, and I only really had issues when I switched to rolling releases (Arch and then Tumbleweed) because sometimes the driver and kernel would get mismatched and I’d either need to rollback or reinsntall the update. I played tons of games in that time.

      AMD is a better experience on Linux, but mostly for things like Wayland and driver updates. Actual day-to-day usage is fine with Nvidia, just nothing to write home about.

      That said, I have zero experience with laptops, and I’ve heard that can be a royal pain. However, I don’t know if it’s better on AMD, or if graphics switching just sucks in general on Linux.

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      11 months ago

      So far so good gaming-wise on the 3080 ti, not to deny I don’t bump into other random issues thanks to nvidia

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      11 months ago

      Yeah there are distros that make the driver install process seamless like pop and Nobara. I’ve used both and have stuck with endeavorOS for now.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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      11 months ago

      To be totally honest, I‘ve had to work quite a bit to get my nvidia gpu under control but so far it works. I get weird behavior at times and the proprietary trash of a driver updating is like russian roulette (on ubuntu mind you) but it does perform decent. A lot better than the nouveau driver btw which gave me 10 fps at metro.

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      11 months ago

      The only reason I’m running an AMD card is because of the pandemic. I’ve run NVIDIA cards for over a decade with Linux and it hasn’t been bad. There were times where it was painful but these days it’s pretty easy.