It used to be this way and was one of my biggest complaints. It's no longer this way. Drivers for my Nvidia card works fine on my mint and arch setup.
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Iβve learned it best to use nvidia drivers with nvidia cards and the AMD drivers with the AMD cards. I recommend this for performance.
Thank you for posting this!! I canβt get an erection. I tried using an AMD driver the other day with my NVIDIA card and was stumped why my screen was blank. Iβd give you gold if I could!
Absolutely crazy take, I bet no one has thought of this.
the upsides of buying from a Company that donates to OSS projects rather then not donating and only maintains proprietary drivers.
IK broadcom also does this too,but broadcom do have drivers in Mesa only for the Raspberry PI.
That's the thing with AMD drivers, they're the damn near perfect software. Doing lots of stuff yet you'd never know it's there. It stays nicely out of the user's way, you don't even have to think about installing them and shit just works
Then there are the Nvidia drivers
They are not perfect, but their developers β 1 or 2 actually allocated to work on in-kernel drivers, such as Mario Limonciello β almost are.
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I think it's more of a
Open drivers vs proprietary drivers
This kinda reminded me of a scene in That 70s Show where Red Forman strongly recommended to his son that he should only fit accessories compatible with his 1969 Oldsmobile car.
I am on Debian with Nvidia 550 drivers... yeah.
Silly question but why?
Why what? Why Debian? Why Nvidia? Or White Nvidia 550 drivers?
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Why Debian: Because I am most familiar with Debian-based distros, and I don't generally need latest stuff for anything. I really wanted to familiarize myself with the base for other distros, and I am fine with it.
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Why Nvidia: Because I chose Nvidia when I built my computer (it was running Windows 10 at that moment) and I never upgraded it, and given that I don't have integrated graphics on my system I am stuck with it, unless I upgrade.
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Why Nvidia 550 drivers: Because these are the drviers that are in the latest Debian release (13 - trixie) and I don't want to break my system by installing experimental drivers or official ones from Nvidia. I also only have problems on Wayland Plasma session where HW accelerated apps and games have big graphical issues, but relogging to X11 session is fine for now. I don't really play video games, except retro and indie stuff anyway.
The reason I'm asking is that you can buy old AMD GPUs on eBay or equivalent sites for not a lot of money. Sure it involves spending but you will never need to deal with nvidia again
15 years ago this was true lol
3 years ago this was true. Not sure if nvidia works properly with wayland even now, though at least the trend is different now
It has no issues, NVIDIA just works these days (if you use a distro where you can choose to use proprietary drivers for it during installation)
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When you want to do GPU processing for AI, crypto, video editing, etc, though, this gets reversed.
Getting Cuda working on Linux with an nvidia card is relatively painless. Just a few well-documented commands, worked on the first try.
I could never get AMD's equivalent to work on Linux, though, and it led me down a horrible rabbit-hole of trying a dozen different driver versions from a dozen different places, all with their own unique and quirky ways of installing... And it still never did work.
ROCM is pretty simple. It's just no where near as robust and supported as Cuda.
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Never had an issue with my Nvidia card. OBS can use the hardware encoder out of the box. Just a few weeks ago upgraded to a AMD card and had to set some "advanced" settings in OBS to do the same. Really happy overall, but after seeing this meme for years I expected rainbows and sunshine but was unpleasantly surprised in that regard.
my nvidia card caused sleeping and hibernation to randomly and regularly fail, and it made me very vary of system updates breaking random things.
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I haven't had any issues with my nvidia GPU. I did some distro-hopping and didn't have any nvidia issues in any of the distros I tried.
If you want everything to work out of the box, I would recommend Bazzite. Pop! OS had me using the AMD image and fetching the nvidia driver manually (the nvidia image just didn't work for me). After that, everything worked brilliantly.
Bazzite just works unless you have a Gigabyte b550 motherboard. Guess what I have?
Big ooof!
the nvidia desktop version of bazzite didnt work with vulkan for me. it was still attempting to use mesa drivers for it. this was after debian where what i was trying to do required bleeding edge drivers which obviously wasnt going to work. then i just said fuck it and went with ubuntu like i have my entire linux career. you can hate on me, but it honestly works good enough
Wow, opposite issues! Bazzite worked out of the box for me, but Ubuntu wasΒ awful.Β I spent several hours just to get my wired internet to work, threw every fix I could find at it, eventually fixed it with a modprobe, used it for a few days and decided that Ubuntu wasn't for me.
No hate, fam. Penguin brothers stick together
Thanks
No way ? this is what I have. What are the issues ?
The issues were random black outs when the system was idle. The system just shut off display output and you had to force shutdown. Only logs that were there pointed to a popular Bazzite sleep issue. Didn't look like it was worth it trying to patch it (fresh install) so I just swapped over to CachyOS.
ok cheers good to know
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