I’m planning on changing to Linux eventually, but my PC has a 4060ti. I have heard that Nvidia drivers are a pain to install, and I don’t have the means to change to a non-Nvidia GPU. Am I in trouble?
I’m planning on changing to Linux eventually, but my PC has a 4060ti. I have heard that Nvidia drivers are a pain to install, and I don’t have the means to change to a non-Nvidia GPU. Am I in trouble?
lol? This is the best advice I can give people… What is wrong with you?
I guess I just offer better advice, not sure what to tell you. There’s no reason to prioritize a single GPU over another, especially so on Linux. Driver support has come leaps and bounds this year alone, and it’s only May.
Users should and need to make the decision for themselves which GPU is best for them and you shouldn’t try to scare them away from a particular GPU because you had a bad experience with it.
Look. I use both nvidia and amd video cards for 20 plus years.
The experience under Linux using amd in factually better than Nvidia. Mainly because AMD open source their drivers and are part of the kernel.
You can’t deny this fact. The only down side of open source in this particular case is the stupid HDMI Forum people, who do not allow us to have the latest hdmi implementation for 4k 120hz in an open source driver. Which is part of the license, where consumers are paying for. So that is ridiculous from the hdmi forum.
Anyhow, the user is free to choose whatever video card they wish to use. Hack try even the latest Intel Gpus. But also with Intel the firmware update are horrible outdated and they do not maintain they sht
And I’ve been using linux since 1992; so I’m going on 33 years with using both NVIDIA and AMD. I genuinely don’t see the relevance here.
Again, his highly depends on the distro. With the vast majority of modern distros this is just a plain objectively incorrect statement. Using NVIDIA is as simple as installing a single package and restarting to load the drivers.
I quite literally just did. Because it’s not a fact. Five years ago? Sure. I’d give it to you. But not today. It’s objectively incorrect.
Because it doesn’t adhere to the open HDMI standard. If you want it so badly, integrate the changes yourself and offer the stub to the community.
Which is why I posted in the very first place because you saying “don’t buy NVIDIA, it doesn’t work with linux!” is fucking stupid… End users are free to choose whatever video card they wish, especially without interference from someone operating with opinions deeply held in the past.