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And it all seemingly went so well (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 days ago by Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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If I had a dollar for every time the Nvidia driver screwed me over I still couldn't order anything with it because my graphics driver wouldn't load.

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (10 children)

What’s the deal with Linux and Nvidia? Do the official drivers suck, or is it people not wanting to use a closed source driver but not having good open source drivers? I might have access to a good gaming PC soon but it has an Nvidia card.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

The drivers have gotten a lot better over the last few years, and Nvidia even have an official open-source driver now, but there's still issues with them. Wayland works very well now, but not perfectly (especially on GPUs with low VRAM).

If you're on Linux and are buying a new GPU, stick to AMD. Their driver is part of the Linux kernel, it's more stable, and it gets all the newest features first.

[–] OwlHamster@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

As a game developer I would suggest the opposite. Never had a report that came down to an Nvidia graphics card, however AMD will randomly introduce game breaking bugs in their Linux driver and leave it unfixed for years.

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