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I was surprised when I saw the newest Vega firmwares show up in my /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ with a kernel update only 6 days after the release of the last AMD GPU
by shrimp_emoji 8y ago
I was surprised when I saw the newest Vega firmwares show up in my /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ with a kernel update only 6 days after the release of the last AMD GPU -- and on Manjaro, where updates are supposedly delayed a little. AMD touted "day one Linux support", which I don't know if they fulfilled, but they're certainly more committed to Linux than Nvidia.
Unfortunately, Nvidia's so dominant (and rightly-so from a price-per-performance unit standpoint).
Also, though: would someone on Ubuntu or a point release distro (which is the majority of Linux end users) have these new firmwares, ever, until they reinstalled to the next OS version? Since hardware driver support seems so tied to the kernel version, I would think not unless they manually updated the kernel (which, not only is that scary on a distro meant to run with a specific kernel but it's something they have to go out of their way to do), which also means they'd miss out on DE improvements and other hardware/protocol support by as much as a year or more, depending on their upgrade cadence. TL;DR: rolling release provides the best Windows-like experience, and an Arch-based distro that emphasizes usability and mitigation of updates that break the system is what best fills that niche, so Manjaro master race.
- godelski 8y ago> Nvidia's so dominant And rightly so, like you said. That's why I can't take the other user's advice and just shell out money to AMD. And while I do love Manjaro, I still have this problem. In fact I get no detection of my HDMI port. When I had Ubuntu I could (sometimes) get it to display if I restarted the computer with the HDMI plugged in. I'm also not sure why the linux devs don't take this (or at least not that I've seen) as seriously. Linux is in such a good state now that it is easier to convert people. But this problem prevents A LOT of people from switching, and rightly so. As for the NVIDIA sucks and doesn't play nice. There needs to be a better argument than that. Like why? There's so many people developing on linux with their cards. They are dominant. Most gpu programmers use cuda and a significant amount of ML researchers are using linux boxes. It doesn't make sense (to me) to just say f you to all those developers. Nvidia doesn't have a motive to push people to Windows.
- jay_kyburz 8y ago>Unfortunately, Nvidia's so dominant (and rightly-so from a price-per-performance unit standpoint). I'm not sure about the price-per-performance. I just bought a new system with a Vega 64, and if you take into consideration I could use FreeSync instead of paying an extra $200 for GSync in a monitor, it works out better.
- theevilsharpie 8y agoPascal and newer Nvidia cards support Freesync as of driver version 417.71.
- jay_kyburz 8y agoOh yeah, they announced that a few weeks after my new PC arrived.
- darkpuma 8y ago> price-per-performance unit standpoint On Windows sure (I assume), but that goes out the window when you use Linux. On Linux with an Nvidia card you're paying for more downtime/breakage, much worse performance with the FOSS drivers, incompatibility with wayland, etc.
- rbanffy 8y ago> price-per-performance unit standpoint You know... If the thing doesn't work, price doesn't matter that much. I prefer something more reliable that's not as fast (I've been using Intel GPUs for many years now)