Hey folks. I’m a new dad which means my gaming time is at a premium, but I am going through a big cleanse of the enshittification era of the internet right now, and Windows 11 is kinda giving me bad vibes.

Last time I tried to run Linux it was ok and worked the majority of the time, but ray tracing and a few games caused some issues. I was also using game pass which of course doesn’t work on Linux, so I dropped back to windows.

How is Nvidia life these days? I’ve got a 3080 and an AMD 9800X3D so it should be fine for most games I imagine.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Some things to consider:

    • RTX on AMD sucks, though not sure how RTX on Linux is
    • AMD drivers are FOSS, which means things like Wayland work better sooner (I think Wayland works on Nvidia now?)
    • if you’re on a rolling release, you’ll occasionally have breakage with Nvidia due to kernel mismatch (happened to me on Arch and openSUSE Tumbleweed); no issues with AMD

    In short, AMD will be more seamless on Linux and cheaper for raster performance. Nvidia may be a little annoying, but has higher top end performance.

    I go with AMD because I’m done paying more and having a bit worse experience, but I mostly stick to mid tier cards anyway.