I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it’s like this is the way everything was always meant to be.
HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.
I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).
No ragrets.
No regerts.
Team red 4lyfe (again).
Nobody’s going to post it? Really? It was my understanding doing so in a conversation like this one was mandatory.
Sorry. I’m a child. I’ll see myself out.As A long time Linux user I couldn’t agree more. My son, who likes to game with me, was handing down his ‘old’ nvidia cards such as a 3070, so I put up with years of nvidia’s crap. A couple of months ago I ripped out his ‘old’ 3070 and put in a new XFX brand AMD RX 7600. Works out of the box and plenty fast for HD resolutions. Why did I waste years of my life fighting with nvidia nonsense on Linux??
Similar boat, for me its cause of video editing and cuda, but how I hardly do that, and my reason before was because nvidia actually made Linux drivers while ATI (yeah, the last time I used a non-nvidia card in Linux) was a pain in my ass.
Things have changed just a little since they were ATI 🤣
I have an NVidia 3070 RTX and never had any single problems. I really never had problems with NVidia at all on Ubuntu, ever. I always stuck with LTS versions though.
Truly happy for you!
I was originally multi booting LTS Ubuntu to meet reqs for work with Arch for gaming and everything except sleep worked pretty well. The Wayland cutover sucked for years as they fixed one thing and broke another. HDR never worked correctly.
Well with Ubuntu LTS I never had HDR as a feature to begin with lol. So I didn’t have to worry about it.
Should be available OOTB as of 26.04 … At least with kde!
Yeah but I’m switching to Debian. So I still won’t have it for a couple years I think. 🥲
Available as of 13/Trixie last year (gnome 48/kde 6)!
Oh nice!!! Thanks for letting me know! :)
Until I saw this, I assumed it must be a problem with newer Nvidia cards because I almost never had a problem with my ancient GTS450 on Mint and LMDE.
And that “almost” is because of the one time something got added to the kernel that didn’t play nice with the OEM driver. Later kernels didn’t have the same problem.
All that said, I’m team AMD again and am likely to stay that way. The old computer was built during a very brief window about 15 years ago where it wasn’t uncool to buy Intel CPUs and NVidia graphics and, I assume, AMD were having problems.
The PC before that was AMD/ATI, hence “again” now.
@Botzo Have fun with the new card.
Go team big evil corporation yay
If you know of any cottage shops making superlative GPUs, please let the community know!
As for this discussion, I have had very few problems with my RX 7800XT. Compare this to the issues and performance Nvidia GPUs have on Linux wrt gaming and the official drivers, and it really makes me hope that the recent work on NVK will eventually lead to some relief for our GeForce peeps.
AMD is definitely the way to go with linux, but neither company deserves ‘team’ worship, they are both bad seeds, as are intel.
Damn I’m a tech illiterate person but got a 6600xt with a ryzen 5. Should I also be running Linux? The only thing I know about it is I can’t play some games which kind of makes me hesitant.
Look up the games you have or the games you’re worried about on Proton DB:
Then you can see whether you will lose anything with the switch.
This was actually really helpful, of course there’s no way of knowing if games releasing in the future will work or not, but it does seem like a lot of my games will work with the exception of Destiny 2.
Do you want a seamless and high performance gaming experience? Then no.
Would you take a hit in performance for a more elegant OS and more freedoms? Then yes.
Nice karma farming post! :D
Myself I have ofc had some issues with my RTX 4090, since I also do AI stuff Nvidia is the way to go. But I want to give other users the nuance that if you get a gaming distro (cachy, garuda, pika, nobara) you will meet little resistance with at least newer cards.
Of course AMD will give you a better put of the box experience, at a more affordable price.
