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Re:Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux by somenameforme on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @12:44AM (#36595597)
It's not just on Linux though. My wife and I had literally identical setups with the one difference being the video card. I had an AMD card, she a NVidia. And the compatibility issues are real. For a specific example, Nvidia cards and Grim Dawn just don't (or didn't at least) get along, even on Windows - with about a zillion threads of such in the Steam forums for it, indicating it wasn't just e.g. a hardware failure type issue. And that wasn't the only game issues cropped up in. That's when we decided to replace her card with an AMD one, and we've had zero issues since.

Another fun thing (again, on Windows at least) is NVidia's drivers forcibly installing telemetry, even when disabled in the install settings. NVidia was king of cards for quite a number of years, but they're really not the company they once were anymore.

Re:Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux by Gasp0de on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:11AM (#36596672)
Are AMD cards any use for compute tasks such as machine learning though? I would like to build a gaming PC that I can use for stuff like that as well and I feel like there is no real alternative to CUDA at the moment
Re:Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux by empyrrhicist on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:22AM (#36599370)
In theory, sort of, depending on the card and workload. In practice, much more of a headache since (if nothing else) the user base is much smaller.

That's coming from someone who just ordered a 7900xtx anyway.