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Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by rektide on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @12:50PM (#34972419)
I dont feel like I share the same planet with this comment. AMD on Linux is vastly widely better in almost every way. Nvidia is a terrible partner & the binary/closed/proprietary drivers they offer have tons of wrinkles/issues, and whether Nvidia even bothers supporting modern capabilities everyone else agrees on is forever & seemingly always will be in question.

Nvidia's whole role in life seems to be competing against standards. Everyone else heads one way, Nvidia tries to out-compete by making their own. Oh great, there's DLSS support in the new binary driver... FSR only works because AMD did it at a share-able level. FreeDesktop is making GBM? Let's invent EGLStreams & insist on that for a decade. Nvidia has no visible cooperative spirit.

AMD has good drivers, super reliable, worked on by a wide variety of the gaming/computer-graphics industry/world. There's a huge trove of Proton games that run exceedingly well & without fail: proof positive that AMD has the situation down.

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by pjmlp on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:30PM (#34972927)
AMD decided that my APU card wasn't worth their time on the new open source driver. fxglr => OpenGL 4.1, AMD new open source driver => OpenGL 3.3, without hardware video acceleration.

Secondly, good luck having a go at any compute framework offering from AMD on Linux, unless working for some research lab doing HPC.

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by AstralStorm on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:28AM (#34994142)
Even with the research lab and elbow grease the thing is hard to use as heck.
Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by mardifoufs on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:05PM (#34972605)
Since when is FSR the standard, or even a standard at all? A part from AMD using it.

Also, in my experience Nvidia works just fine on linux, you just have to install their drivers. I literally never had an issue with them, and I use it professionally and for games. AMD is probably better if you want bleeding edge updates or use a rolling release distro, but the downside is that you still have to contend with some weird driver issues that aren't magically fixed just because the code is open source.

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by goosedragons on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:24PM (#34973627)
While FSR isn't a standard, AMD at least put effort into getting it working on competing Nvidia cards.

Yes, things mostly work when you install the Nvidia Linux drivers. But even on a Ubuntu LTS I've had updates break the Nvidia driver, sleep is a 50/50 toss up whether it resumes broken too. And that's on my desktop and ignoring the giant PITA of using a laptop with hybrid graphics. Using the Nvidia drivers also greatly complicates using a Libre distro like Debian or Guix because obviously they're non-free. Plus until the past year or so Wayland has just been essentially a non-starter with Nvidia even with drivers because of their choices.

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by mardifoufs on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:14PM (#34976292)
I agree that you shouldn't use nvidia if you want any distro that prefers libre software. For most regular users it's just fine, except for wayland as you said. I wonder if nvidia has any plans w.r.t wayland support. Everything still works with X but wayland has finally shaped up to probably displace it.
Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by justinclift on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:07PM (#34976811)
The one major downside I'm experiencing using an Nvidia card (980 Ti), is sleep/resume not working. eg at resume time the screen rarely powers back on, then the system hard locks with the kernel traceback indicating an nvidia problem

The whole power off/power on thing instead doesn't take all that long, but it would be more convenient to just have a working sleep/resume.

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by cpgxiii on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:33PM (#34978449)
Some people's planet is graphics-only, and for them AMD is a great choice.

AMD is pretty great on Linux so long as you only ever want graphics. Once you want anything else out of their very-good-on-paper hardware, the experience starts to break down. You have to manually install/uninstall/reinstall their ever-shifting compute driver(s) and which driver you install (and the cadence at which said driver is updated, particularly for newer kernels) depends heavily on the device you have. E.g. I have a 5700XT and W5700, very similar hardware, yet supported by two very different drivers (I'll let you guess which one lags much farther behind - hint, it's for the more expensive card).

In contrast, Nvidia's driver has essentially always worked - I install the same driver on all my systems, and it gets updated frequently enough that it's always compatible with the current Ubuntu kernels. Over a dozen or so machines (personal, not counting work) over the last ~15 years, I've only encountered one or two serious issues with the Nvidia driver stack. Compare that to ~5 AMD machines over the last ~6 years where I've encountered at least one major issue per machine each year with the AMD driver stack.

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by WeylandYutani on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:02AM (#34980262)
You can remove the "tries" Nvidia is outcompeting everyone.

You can hate the company but their products are second to none.