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In more than 10 years of Nvidia cards on Linux I have encoutered many bugs and glitches but never something so serious.
Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try to disable every possible sensors related program and see what happens. Even though someone says it might be related to multi-monitor setups.
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The system is not completely frozen though, so if you're lucky you may manage to issue a poweroff command via the terminal to gracefully shut down.
No Shmerl, you can spin it any way you want and ofc Nvidia is not perfect, but the difference between AMD and them is night and day. A problem on Nvidia is very much the exception, whereas it’s the rule with AMD.
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Depends on the problem. Nvidia has a lot more money, but they only support limited Linux use cases. Fall outside use cases Nvidia care about, and you get zero support, despite all the money, no matter how you spin it. That's not an exception, it's a clear cut rule with them.
AMD has less money (so support takes longer), but they support all Linux use cases properly due to working with upstream. So I'd take AMD over Nvidia any day, but faster support would be of course appreciated.
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Yes, this bug has been an issue from the start, but it got somewhat better. Some fixes are still pending. If it will be still a problem in 5.5, it means something is still missing.
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Well, they let me play some games on Linux and that’s really the only use case I care about and any others are really off topic as per this site’s name. AMD don’t let people play games on Linux.
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That's all you might care about, but that's not every Linux use case, including not every gaming one. Issues from broken PRIME to lack of Wayland and XWayland support plagued Nvidia for years, and despite all the money they didn't bother doing much about it. As I said, as soon as it's outside of their limited interest - it's a complete wasteland of support. Just because you didn't encounter that, doesn't mean it's not a problem.
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- Go AMD for a perfectly integrated Linux solution, but either wait a year after release of a new hardware generation or be prepared to invest considerable time into living on the edge with kernel RC's, mesa master etc.
- Go Nvidia if you want to use newest hardware but be prepared to restrict your use cases to what NVidia supports, thus e.g. just classic X and be ready for the occasional breaking when updating your system.
Both options have their own advantages, non is perfect, so best answer here: it depends on personal preference ;)