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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:15:02 PM No.105870185
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Will AMD give me fewer headaches than Nvidia Linux or is it a meme? Is AMD truly hassle-free?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:26:34 PM No.105870267
I've heard that the linux amd driver is maintained by a bunch of open sores autists compared to nvidias so that might be a plus.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:28:00 PM No.105870281
>>105870185 (OP)
Nvidia works fine on Linux if you use the prop drivers. Over a decade using them together almost no problems except that one Debian issue
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:29:13 PM No.105870290
>>105870281
I saw a video of the Chris Titus Linux guy saying if you daily drive Linux you should use AMD card to save yourself from trouble in the future
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:56:04 PM No.105870532
>>105870185 (OP)
I used a RX550 in my media PC running mint for like 7 years with no issues. I've also run a RTX 3060 on my desktop with mint for about 4 years with no issues. I think its just 3rd world jeets running failing hardware that have issues
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:00:36 PM No.105870570
>>105870185 (OP)
amd cards being better than nvidia cards on linux is a myth. most of it made up by retards who don't know how to install the proprietary drivers.
>>105870267
intel cards would be better in that regard, as they pretty much mog amd cards in being affordable and offer better codecs.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:09:46 PM No.105870648
Pretty sure both are pretty easy to run and have relatively few problems at this point as long as you have access to up to date drivers.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:20:00 PM No.105870740
>>105870281
This. All the shit about nvidia drivers in Linux is mostly false. Just use the proprietary ones. Make the decision about what you buy based on your use case not driver memes.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:20:57 PM No.105870748
>>105870185 (OP)
It's a meme. AMD drivers are awful, buggy. It gets memed by Wayland trannies because they can tinker with the ABI while NVIDIA gatekeeps them.

We can thank NVIDIA for forcing the Wayland trannies to adopt explicit sync, though.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:27:12 PM No.105870805
>>105870185 (OP)
that looks like Aris from the hit game Blue Archive, now available on Steam
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:41:31 PM No.105870934
>>105870185 (OP)
Only Nvidia cards have ever been truly hassle free. Not anymore though, they're descending to AMD levels. It's over.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:51:39 PM No.105871033
I'm using a 4070 super and I cannot use Plasma on Wayland without getting desktop artifacts every now and then, and HDR does not work on GNOME. Also I have no way to undervolt the GPU. You're telling me that the AMD experience is worse. Are you actively fucking with me?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:54:36 PM No.105871062
>>105871033
I am switching from Nvidia to AMD because of problems you talked about. Even huge Linux youtubers say you should use amd in the long run. That anon is probably trolling you
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:29:59 PM No.105871418
>>105870185 (OP)
Yeah it works pretty well, the only issue I've had with my AMD gpu is from my own incompetence. I had an Nvidia before and had loads of problems, but the card was full on dying so I don't know how the experience is for a properly working card.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:36:49 PM No.105871485
>>105871062
I thought of doing that but it's too soon to upgrade. I don't think a 9070xt is enough of an excuse.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:49:08 PM No.105871614
I’m running Linux with a 4070 Super.
Games perform about 15-20% worse, and I have issues with electron programs like Obsidian but besides that, things are perfect.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:52:57 PM No.105871650
>>105870570
>better codecs
You seriously decode (or god forbid ENCODE) using your GPU?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:54:52 PM No.105871671
>>105871650
t. basement dweller
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:56:31 PM No.105871687
>>105871671
t. disgusting normalfag reeeeeeee
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 6:59:00 PM No.105871712
>>105870185 (OP)
I mean I haven't had any issues with AMD on linux
But for some reason you're going to get a bunchy of clannish consumers.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:40:23 PM No.105872165
>>105871614
>Games perform about 15-20% worse
That's no small margin, it's the furthest apart from perfect.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:46:57 PM No.105872222
>>105870185 (OP)
linux will give you a headache no matter what you do
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:49:07 PM No.105872239
>>105870185 (OP)
AMDGPU Just Werks™. It's already preinstalled.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:51:33 PM No.105872264
>>105870185 (OP)
The only completely headache-free gpu experience on linux is with intel cards, that said the "headache" consists in installing (as in literally clicking on a "install" button) a fucking package with your card driver and nothing more. The worst i have ever experienced in this regard was dealing with the nvdia transformer card at the time.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:53:36 PM No.105872284
>>105871650
Not him but there are reasons to do so. I use a Nvidia gpu at work to deinterlace and encode a bunch of live TV channels. The interlacing was causing devices to glitch out so we had to do something about it. I don't want lots of encodes running at once raping the CPU. We also use quicksync to do the same thing for SD channels.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 7:57:41 PM No.105872326
>>105872239
Sounds good, hopefully i dont have trouble installing the new gpu tomorrow. Should I uninstall the nvidia drivers before putting in the amd one? Actually, I was planning on doing a fresh install of the distro
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:02:27 PM No.105872383
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only vaguely related but looks like for once, between my gpus, nvidia was more stable.
mesa intel iris driver had a bug, which nvidia didn't have
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:10:00 PM No.105872455
>>105872326
I would uninstall the proprietary driver, but I don't know if it's strictly necessary.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:44:53 PM No.105872792
>>105870185 (OP)
>AMD
>Nvidia
they are the same company, fake competition to avoid antimonopoly laws, happens in all sectors
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 8:59:25 PM No.105872924
>>105870185 (OP)
>Is AMD truly hassle-free
Never was, never is, never will be.
They just cannot do software.
Drivers, ROCm, etc. All shit.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:30:14 PM No.105874504
>>105870185 (OP)
Yes and no. Amd has shit drivers but nvidia has even worse ones. My personal choice is amd because free driver and libraries exist for it. But amd encourages you to use proprietary ones.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:35:22 PM No.105874547
>>105870740
>All the shit about nvidia drivers in Linux is mostly false.

>suspend, wake up, blinking triangles all over ui, some textures got vertically flipped
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:41:35 PM No.105874615
>>105871033
>>105871062
Hate to disappoint you guys but I'm running a 9070XT, coming from a 3080ti, and I've regularly experienced Wayland artifacts on both cards.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:44:00 PM No.105874644
>>105870185 (OP)
AMD is hassle-free on Linux, but you need to use a rolling release distro for the latest Mesa, or add a Mesa PPA on Ubuntu to get proper support for newer GPUs and features.
I used NVIDIA on Linux until a few years ago. I installed them using ubuntu-drivers with proprietary drivers. They often broke for me with driver updates and kernel updates. The solution was always to reinstall the drivers. Maybe ubuntu-drivers is shitty and other distros have better QA.

My experience with a 6700XT on Manjaro has been hassle free.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:46:28 PM No.105874666
>>105874615
I heard so as well. It seems that AMD has been pretty good on linux except for the latest series.
Well, not entirely. I remember a good whole fucking 2 years in which RDNA2 GPUs (and I believe RDNA as well) had an issue with broken looking cursors. That did get fixed though.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:08:50 AM No.105874872
>>105870185 (OP)
Its true in some ways and not in others, if you don't want to use proprietary drivers , amd is far ahead, if you are on antiquated hardware, this is also true, want the best possible performance, and proper hdmi support not so much
>>105870570
nvidia doesn't support their cards forever, and kernel support often lags, right now amd has proper out of the box support for cards going back to r300 (radeon 9700/9600/9500 from 2002) and even older cards are possible to use with some optional packages. bug fixes to make their way into the stack even in the modern day https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commits/main?ref_type=heads?search=r300. the same cannot be said for nvidia cards,