Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub...
by goosedragons on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:24PM
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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
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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
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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.
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.