This seems a far cry from reality, unless you're using some magically niche card.
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2025
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Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.
I think if there was a Linux step, it would be to remove proprietary drivers if installed then enable nouveau. If there are features missing on your new card, move back to the proprietary.
For those who say "why install proprietary", say hello to the annoying world of OpenCL.
You forgot the part where the motherboard vrm burnt due to the new gpu higher wattage but close enough.
I think you went from a 25.10 branch at a point where the KMD split had already occurred. This means that support for kmd3 devices (RDNA3+4) was not present, which lead to the abject chaos you saw on windows
I'm curious about the network remark though. Was this on windows 10 or 11? Can you tell me which platform (motherboard chipset) this is with?
Skill issue
ITT: Ubuntu (and downstream) users crying that they dont have a one click Nvidia solution like literally every other competent distro.
If you're counting me in that, mint stopped booting when I switched from nvidia to amd
Shocked to not find any Linux haters raging in the comment section. They'll be here soon enough.
What load is this? Unless you're switching from one manufacturer to the other the drivers are universal save for really old cards. So you go from a RTX2070 to and RTX4070 it'll work after a few moments to recognize by the PC.