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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've abandoned nvidia. I boycott all companies that contribute to the rejection of peace and human rights.

If I buy a GPU or any computer parts in the future, it will either be from a company that has pledged to not facilitate authoritarian regimes, mass surveillance, and the military industrial complex. Or it will be a used part on the second hand market.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Huge gap in the market for some talented ASIC engineers.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good. Please do. Their design philosophy has pushed the industry in the wrong direction for decades.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Oh boy, here I go playing sprite games again.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Good, frankly? CUDA's monopoly has been a pox on computing. Vendor lock-in on PC is an artificial abuse.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Linux + AMD was a nobrainer when upgrading this time around

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’ve been running into a slew of performance issues on Linux with my 4070 across a range of games that all ran fine under Windows. I’ve been tempted to trade for the AMD equivalent just so I don’t have to deal with more nVidia driver nonsense. My roommate has an AMD card that I’ll be doing a trial run on later this week. Depending on how that goes, I might finally make the switch to Red Team.

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I also had some headaches with Nvidia drivers with my 4070 on opensuse tumbleweed. But then I hopped to endeavouros and it has been a flawless experience. But I also feel the call of AMD lol I certainly will never buy another Nvidia GPU.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you're having issues with the proprietary drivers, you should try the open drivers for nvidia. Depending on your distro and install, you might also be having problems because of using wayland instead of X.

You might also get better mileage out of a different distribution altogether as some are intended to be a better experience for gaming and will have some important things pre-installed. This all depends on your skill level and the amount of time/effort you have to dedicate ofcourse.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What doesn’t make any sense is that I’m running Bazzite which should be super optimized. I made a whole long post about it here: https://lemmy.world/post/40074859

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago

I've not used bazzite before. But I was just thinking you might be having weird issues if steam is installed as a flatpak or some other sandboxed environment.

Here's what I'd try (in order of ease to try):

  • switch from Wayland to x.
  • ensure steam is natively installed.
  • test the open drivers instead of the closed.
  • try a different distribution like endeavorOS which is great for gaming.

Test in-between each step and switch back or tweak as desired. You really shouldn't have to spend more money for new hardware unless your GPU is faulty.