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Going from nvidia to amd (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As many already know, nvidia is not the best choice for linux and amd is always recommend when it is brought up, so here id like to ask an equivalent to my graphics card in amd, i know nothing about amd and dont really know where to start honestly.

GPU: gtx 1660 super processor: 11th gen i5-11400 2.60hgz x 6

what would be a similar or better choice from amd in terms of gpu that maybe doesnt cost an arm and a leg? Do nvidia or amd matter in terms of games?

any help would be very appreciated

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, Arch is one of the better distributions regarding Nvidia support. Props to the team that makes it work. Last I've heard this is not the norm though. If you get a new card and all you care about is raster performance there's no need to go for anything but AMD. Granted I believe Nvidia does everything else better (Raytracing / energy efficiency / compute ) or at least not worse but the open driver experience is just pure bliss.

oh and fuck Nvidia. I really hope the changes to EXPORT_GPL_ONLY in 6.6 screw them over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh, I didn't know that other distros may have more problems with nvidia drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried fedora and some spins, nvidia drivers flatout made the distro not work or have graphical problems

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The only issues I have with Nvidia is Wayland, which sucks because I actually really like Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try an Ubuntu dist-upgrade with Nvidia drivers installed and report back.

It's a bit of cheating because Ubuntu supports dist-upgrade only if you use nothing but universe. Granted it might work still but if it doesn't your paid support will just tell you to restore a backup and try with universe packages only. At least that's what I heard. But it's been long since I used Ubuntu and maybe the situation is better nowadays. Back then, this screwed be over big time.