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    Guys, it looks like nvidia has another faithful fan... (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    There was a period, however brief, about, oh, 13 or so years ago where the recommendation was to avoid AMD entirely and go Intel and NVIDIA. Guess when I bought the parts for my PC?

    My system before that was entirely AMD / ATI, but then, that was never a Linux machine. Nonetheless, the fashion when I built that was to avoid Intel and NVIDIA.

    Literally the only real problem I've had on Linux with my ancient setup is the fact that one time two or three years back, a kernel and the legacy NVIDIA driver didn't play nice and I had to stick with an older kernel for a while.

    Now my problem is that my NVIDIA card is so old that Debian stable doesn't support it any more and so neither do any distros descended from it. The OEM driver from NVIDIA themselves is a pain to install by comparison to the old .deb method, but compared to what I hear about other NVIDIA users, I'm a living miracle.

    It might also help that I haven't played anything more modern than Minecraft, but I have no trouble with YouTube and streaming sites that I've noticed, nor with any of the old games.

    You can guarantee that by the time I get it together enough to buy a new system with AMD processor and graphics, that will mark the turning point when something happens to cause everyone to swing back the other way again, at least for graphics.

    [โ€“] possiblylinux127 3 points 7 months ago

    Honestly you should be able to pickup a old GPU on eBay for not that much.

    Or for that matter, you could pickup a entire workstation that will have better performance.