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>on my main desktop with an nVidia GPU and the proprietary driver Why are you doing this to yourself. There are options that have quality open source drivers
by snvzz 4y ago
>on my main desktop with an nVidia GPU and the proprietary driver
Why are you doing this to yourself.
There are options that have quality open source drivers and quality NDA-free documentation, and you are aware of this.
- spijdar 4y agoAt the risk of inciting a flame war, I'll politely suggest that, while they're usually good enough, I'm not sure I'd say that AMD's drivers are quality. Not to belittle their engineers, only that I've seen enough issues to not prefer AMD for the quality of their drivers. The fact they're mainlined and FOSS is a big bonus, but that's regardless of their quality. Beyond that, some of us need/want CUDA or other GPGPU support, which is a total nightmare with AMD GPUs, and other times the price/performance ratio leans in favor of nvidia, or some people just have nvidia cards and can't/don't want to buy new ones.
- snvzz 4y agoThat's great and all, but I have no issues with wine/proton (or anything else, really) on Vega nor RDNA2, unlike the parent NVIDIA user.
- dark-star 4y agoMy experience with AMD (and ati before that) GPUs in the last 20 years were entirely negative. Even on Windows. nvidia has alway been a better experience. Also, I mainly use Windows and only dual-boot to Linux on that system, so Windows driver quality is my primary concern.
- snvzz 4y agoWorks for me. Using only AMD cards since 2009, without issues in either OS. If you use Windows, remember to wipe it clean of NVIDIA drivers before attempting to install the AMD card, using DDU, as presence of NVIDIA drivers is well-known to cause issues.