Some time ago I managed to sell my 3070 ti and buy a brand new RX 6800 for the same money. 99% of my desktop issues are now gone. Seriously, if you don’t need CUDA, don’t bother… Get rid of Nvidia it is not worth the hassle
21I effectively did the same. While I’m happy NVIDIA is finally got their heads out of their butts and are acquiescing to this, it’s going to still be years before it’s on the same level as radeon in terms of stability and the just works factor.
5I just sold my 3070 and bought a 7800XT for the same reasons.
2That would be giving into the Linux kernel and wayland driver bigots who set out to destroy NVidia on Linux, simply because of the driver's license. Linus, the kernel dev team, and wayland devs sought to break NVidia at every turn. A company that provided us with the best graphics cards on Linux for over a decade, because they couldn't get in and mess with NVidia's code and steal their secrets from their drivers. Don't give into to that level of zealotry. If anything, NVidia and their users should sue Linus and all the wayland devs for the years of crap they've pulled. All over a license. I love Linux, and am forever indebted to Linus for starting it... but this zealotry over licensing is why GNU never got off the ground itself; and they should be spanked for what they did to us. Wayland devs especially, they should be banned from opensource dev work forever and crippled financially for the crime they've committed.
-49Looks like the birdie has escaped phoronix...
In the small chance that this comment is serious, Nvidia is found this because the corporate server-based customers need the ability to troubleshoot and debug the driver.
The actual trade secrets are being moved into the proprietary firmware blob and out of the driver.
14AMD used to have the same issue - their drivers were proprietary and buggy (anyone remember fglrx?). The difference is that they did something about it. Their modern drivers are open-source and mainlined so it's easy for anyone to work on them. New kernel display/GPU features always come to AMD first, because the kernel developers working on the new feature can just add it to the AMD driver themselves.
Nvidia have open-source drivers now, but they're still out of tree (so they'll always lag behind the kernel) and AFAIK they have no plains to merge them into the kernel.
I appreciate Nvidia's efforts, and their newer drivers are much better than older ones (especially now that they support explicit sync), but they're just not as good as AMD's.
7How much? Come on, you're among friends, you can tell us...
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Still went all AMD when I built my PC a couple of months ago. Plug and play is what it was, plug and play. Nvidia won't get any money from me until all their shit is open source.
19I would love to buy an AMD, but I can't afford it, so I'm stuck with the Nvidia I have.
It. blows.
6I wish I could do this, but where I live I just can't find a laptop with a good amd gpu (I live in Brazil), so I'm locked to nvidia :/
4Maybe a laptop with a very good CPU and an eGPU? You can get it from Aliexpress.
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sadly this beta seems to be pretty broken, at least on my setup with 4070tis. i cannot even boot to plasma with the open-dkms and with the propietary one plasma is pretty glitchy, so i reverted back to 555.
10Really? Thanks for the heads up. I'm enjoying the relative stability of 555 so I'll hold my breath a bit longer.
2Lols. :)
Nvidia programmers strike again...
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