https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NIGPpz_vY&t=422s
I'm quite interested in this, more distros coming out with extremely user friendly options for getting games setup would be great, always appreciate proper gameplay being shown too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NIGPpz_vY&t=422s
I'm quite interested in this, more distros coming out with extremely user friendly options for getting games setup would be great, always appreciate proper gameplay being shown too.
That explains why Linux users seem to have a preference for AMD I have to wonder if a bunch of my problems have at least partially come from having a 1660 Super.
My understanding is AMD generally supports open source initiatives directly (OpenGL, Mesa). Nvidia hands you a proprietary binary and says "this is for Linux, good luck." AMD is more philosophically open source. You kind of get the feeling that Nvidia's Linux support is maybe more a side effect of the data center / AI business where Linux is industry standard.
Got an RTX, it has rarely has issues but even those are negligible for me at least.
Do you mind me asking what brand you use? I've had a couple of times where I've had to RMA a Radeon card but that could have just been bad luck as well.
Gigabyte 4080, I've had that with an AMD card also but that was an entirely different issue with actual breaking drivers for AMD. I've mentioned here before but to make it short: my hw combination apparently caused random driver crashes, no matter what distro. I even deleted my old Arch setup I have had to years to no avail. Put in an old GTX I still had laying about-> worked. So I got an nvidia card to replace my old Vega.
Note: Got a bit more autistic and spergy than I meant to but I think it hammers the point home when it comes to open source software
That's really interesting, this is why if I do build a Linux system I am probably going to copy-paste somebody else's benchmark. The open source community really does not talk about hardware compatibility enough when it comes to software. I should consider myself lucky my current setup all runs fine on windows I guess but Blender, Krita and Godot have some major autists doing the code it seems and they've made sure it's all fine.
I'll tell you where I have run into compatibility issues myself with software generally just to assure everyone, no it's not purely them, for some reason the community just doesn't want to admit this problem exists in a lot of cases:
. Signal messenger, that was an extremely weird one, I even confirmed it with someone I knew RL who wanted to give it a try, there are specific phones or specific versions that the messenger app simply does not work on, messages seem to take several days to even send properly and it's clear this is a long term bug the devs refuse to fix or investigate
. Krita/Blender tablet compatibility, I've mentioned this before in previous rants about open source software, I had an old Bamboo One I was trying to get working on it ages ago and the pen pressure just wouldn't work and sometimes it would bug out completely, when I bought a brand new XP-Pen it worked fantastic
. Problems even getting a distro to install on my PC, most likely some combination of my motherboard/graphics card, doubtful it's my CPU because it's a Ryzen 2600 which is a pretty modern and common CPU
I did more digging on this and it looks like I'm not just being paranoid. Already know what was going on with the signal messenger app and Blender/Krita, but it was interesting finding out that hardware compatibility lists for distro do exist, however they are buried and you have to look for them. Distro devs need to be a lot more open about this and warn newbies especially so they don't have the typical experience I did of "Oh, wait a minute, this is unbearably shit, why am I constantly running into error messages when I'm just trying to install everything normally?".
Even though being a tech guy myself I can totally understand blaming the end user for fucking something up which does often happen it's a bit of a piss take when you as the end user finally work out that it's a hardware problem and the devs simply haven't done support for that particular piece of hardware. When people are reporting blatant problems that devs won't address it just makes them look at best completely apathetic or at worse shady as fuck.
Despite what I do, I don't have the time having only one PC at the moment to constantly trawl through all this shit just to get Linux even running on my PC which is why I've ended up on Windows yet again. Which has led me to the conclusion a second PC is probably needed since I don't want to deal with the pain in the arse nature at times of dual booting among other things and that often defeats the purpose of going pure Linux which is to rid yourself of Microsoft and Bill Gates.
I've got an Nvidia GPU rip
This is why I run Windows on heads, and then people say I'm an idiot. Meanwhile, their GPU doesn't work.