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I have exactly opposite experience. All my computers used to had ATI cards. I forgot the exact issues I had, but I remember reading all those issue FAQs basical
by finchisko 9y ago
I have exactly opposite experience. All my computers used to had ATI cards. I forgot the exact issues I had, but I remember reading all those issue FAQs basically saying buy Nvidia to solve your problem. I was always jealous to Nvidia owners for their Linux support, to then point I actually bought Nvidia. I didn't experienced any problems with Linux since then. I wonder when situation reverted being ATI better? And why I always have to be on the wrong side when choosing graphic card.
- jorams 9y agoThe situation is annoying. Up until recently, when you wanted high performance drivers for Linux you needed an AMD or NVIDIA card with proprietary drivers. The NVIDIA driver was a bit annoying in some ways, but those issues could be worked around. The result was a stable installation with great GPU performance. Meanwhile, the AMD driver was somewhere between unusable and terrible. It updated so slowly that you had to stay on ancient versions of X to even be able to use it. For users of rolling-release distributions, that's simply unworkable, and so they bought NVIDIA. There were also open source drivers, which worked quite well, but they weren't even close in terms of performance. (Intel has always played nicely, and their official GPU drivers are open source and work well. Their performance falls into this same category.) Recently, however, AMD has replaced its proprietary driver with a new, open source, high performance driver. AMD is now a serious choice. Sadly the tables have turned, with NVIDIA holding back progress on Wayland by not cooperating with the community.
- majewsky 9y agoCan confirm. If you have a card that supports the amdgpu driver, then the experience is great. Everything just works, and at competitive speed no less.