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Nouveau is useless for a card like the 1080Ti, you get 10% of the performance and much worse energy efficiency. Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago
by sz4kerto 8y ago
Nouveau is useless for a card like the 1080Ti, you get 10% of the performance and much worse energy efficiency.
Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago AMD was absolutely awful under Linux.
Yeah, not much wrong with i3 but I really like what you're doing with Sway. :)
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoWhat was true a few years ago has little bearing on what's true now. People buying new cards should be buying AMD. If your current circumstances don't make this possible for you, though, then there's nothing wrong with staying on X.
- half-kh-hacker 8y agoI use nouveau on my 960, and the performance is pretty much the same. 10% seems like a big overstatement.
- bpye 8y agoIt very much depends upon the generation, the 1000 series cards aren't well supported but they do work.
- majewsky 8y ago> Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago AMD was absolutely awful under Linux. I can assure you that these days are gone. I just got a new Thinkpad with a Ryzen APU and nearly [1] everything worked out of the box. The R9 Nano in my desktop also works perfectly with the AMDGPU driver. [1] "Nearly" because I needed to add "iommu=soft" to the kernel parameters to get Linux to boot.