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I started using AMD cuz it was the "more bang for your buck" option and because of my cheapness I have always had a great experience with Linux, excluding wifi breaking every few months.

I feel like I’m from an alien planet. I’ve been using nVidia cards exclusively since around 2014 and while I’ve certainly not had a perfect track record, 90% of the time, I’ve been pretty plug-and-play. Maybe I’ve been lucky or maybe it’s because I stick to the popular distros.

In either case, from the perspective of openness, I do agree with the community that drivers shouldn’t be shrouded in mystery.

It's important to point out that AMD isn't perfect either (I don't know about Intel), since it requires you to install proprietary firmware. But it's obviously a huge improvement, since it doesn't require proprietary drivers. If we forced Nvidia to do what AMD does, we would be in a much better position. So if you care about freedom, Nvidia is the last company you should choose.

I'd react the same if I was forced to install arch

I never understand why in 2024 you'd buy nvidia, unless you like paying more for less, or buying from scalpers for even more money. I guess some people really just go "More money spent on it, more better" no matter what.

I haven't had any serious problems on PopOS but I've still experienced the shittiness that is NVIDIA on Linux. Starfield was broken for months due to a graphics driver bug, then when it was finally fixed, that driver version broke Cyberpunk... Fucking hell NVIDIA.

I recently bought a 7800 XT for the same reason, NVIDIA drivers giving me trouble in games and generally making it harder to maintain my system. Unfortunately I ran headfirst into the 6.6 reset bug that made general usage an absolute nightmare.

Open source drivers are still miles ahead of NVIDIA's binary blob if only because I could shift to 6.7 when it released to fix it, but I guess GPU drivers are always going to be GPU drivers.

That cursor in the center of the screenshot is really annoying

There is 0 doubt that Nvidia has staggered a lot of progress in the Linux on desktop scene, however half of what this guy is describing is pure misunderstanding and lack of knowledge

There was a period, however brief, about, oh, 13 or so years ago where the recommendation was to avoid AMD entirely and go Intel and NVIDIA. Guess when I bought the parts for my PC?

My system before that was entirely AMD / ATI, but then, that was never a Linux machine. Nonetheless, the fashion when I built that was to avoid Intel and NVIDIA.

Literally the only real problem I've had on Linux with my ancient setup is the fact that one time two or three years back, a kernel and the legacy NVIDIA driver didn't play nice and I had to stick with an older kernel for a while.

Now my problem is that my NVIDIA card is so old that Debian stable doesn't support it any more and so neither do any distros descended from it. The OEM driver from NVIDIA themselves is a pain to install by comparison to the old .deb method, but compared to what I hear about other NVIDIA users, I'm a living miracle.

It might also help that I haven't played anything more modern than Minecraft, but I have no trouble with YouTube and streaming sites that I've noticed, nor with any of the old games.

You can guarantee that by the time I get it together enough to buy a new system with AMD processor and graphics, that will mark the turning point when something happens to cause everyone to swing back the other way again, at least for graphics.

This dude should totally use a ublue-nvidia image before the next Arch update kills their system again.

Needed to switch from Debian to Manjaro because of some gcc version conflicts regarding the linux Kernel and the nvidia driver kernel module. The only fix was to install a newer or older linux kernel. Which is a pain in the ass with Debian but is easy with Manjaro :)

Also switching between newest „gaming“ drivers and cuda always broke my system and drove me crazy. So many hours lost because of nvidia.

I also have to work with some nvidia edge devices. No fresh install without new issues, i can assure you.

Edit: Fyi although I am somewhat teck-savvy, I just recently switched completely to linux. Hence, there might be a good way to handle cuda drivers and „gaming“ drivers

I tried doing a TimeShift restore last week for another software issue, and nvidia drivers crapped the bed (again). Decided it was time to bite the bullet and swapped out my 1080 Ti with a 7700 XT. Did a clean install of Manjaro, and it was eerie how simple it was to get everything including Wayland to work. Should’ve done it two years ago.