so my old GPU died a few days ago and I was thinking which brand of GPU to get next. AMD or Nvidia? I’ve heard Nvidia drivers are very annoying with Linux but I’ve never had an AMD GPU before. Which would be better? I’ll sometimee switch to Windows to play specific games as well.

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    1 year ago

    I have a 1070 Ti, but I’m on Ubuntu and I haven’t had any issues at all for ~5 years. IMO the issue then is Arch, and how the drivers are handled. I also have only updated the driver once (450-server to 525-server), when Satisfactory switched to unreal engine 5.

    I would still recommend AMD though, and I also plan on switching when I have the money for it.

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      1 year ago

      I have a 1060 on Arch and had no problems whatsoever. It will get ugly once the 1060 is no longer supported by the mainline driver, though.

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        1 year ago

        Yup. It’s getting to be fairly old GPU, I’m feeling anxious about getting a new one because I’m poor af but… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯