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For this particular use case, Nvidia works better on Linux than AMD
by babypuncher 3y ago
For this particular use case, Nvidia works better on Linux than AMD
- shmerl 3y agoAs soon as you are out of what they care about, your support will become abysmal. And they don't care about modern desktop use case (such as they didn't have Wayland support for decades). So if you are a Linux user - simply avoid Nvidia. They don't care about you.
- mkl 3y ago> Wayland support for decades It's only 15 years old!
- shmerl 3y agoAnd Nvidia did nothing to support until like a just a few years ago and even now their support is basically half cooked. If it takes them that long, it's very clear they don't care about Linux in general. Same thing is reflected in them not working with upstream kernel.
- jcranmer 3y agoNvidia's Linux compute solution is far better than AMD's compute solution, and their Linux graphics solution is far worse than AMD (and Intel)'s graphics solution. So the recommendation comes down to why you want that GPU.
- shmerl 3y agoTheir compute solution is still lock-in, so that being better is even more moot than their general "good" Linux support.
- babypuncher 3y agoYou're looking at this from the perspective of a hobbyist, not a business who needs to get stuff done. For workloads like training AI models, you would be shooting your business in the foot by using AMD.