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Which GPU or GPU brand would you buy for gaming these days? (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I use Linux, so not Nvidia. AMD is great. Good power for the money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Supposedly Nvidia has become a lot better on Linux lately. They finally dropped their weird framebuffer API or whatever (the one that was the reason for horrible Wayland compatibility and also caused a heated Linus Torvalds moment), and I think they even made their linux drivers open source.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

They do support their driver yes, but it will never be as good as long as it’s proprietary. The open nvidia module isn’t ready and still backed by proprietary blobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Historically speaking, Nvidia was always the best for Linux. Nvidia's success history with Linux trace back to the 2004 with State-of-the-art 3d capabilities (albeit for arcade machines). At that time ATi radeon 3D capabilities for Linux were below sub-par.

The problem with Linux+Nvidia is that it was never "the Linux way"... but always the "Nvidia way".

The Linux way is... flexibility: it mean you can use whatever kind of Linux you want, and the drivers works straight out of the box (basically you need open source drivers). Instead Nvidia always pushed for fixed binary blob that required specific kernel and rigid environment.

The modern support for Linux by AMD is mostly "the Linux way", that's why the Linux community love AMD more than Nvidia.

In any case of hardware parity between Nvidia and AMD; Linux crowd will always prefer AMD, because AMD mean you can use any kind of Linux distro-thing and have an uncompromising gaming experience.