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the what?... i run multiple kernels with nvidia, nvidia-dkms takes care of building the modules for every kernel, i dont need to do anything special myself. but its true that sometimes rc kernels don't work with nvidia, specially if you are using their stable drivers.
Besides I can run a newly released kernel with amdgpu or any kernel. Can you do that with Nvidia? Can you run 5.8 kernel for example from day one? just asking, when I was an nvidia user you had to wait some days maybe a week or so.
Last edited by Koopacabras on 10 August 2020 at 3:41 pm UTC
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Last edited by Shmerl on 10 August 2020 at 3:40 pm UTC
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Yeah personally use stable kernel and driver works ok as youre said with nvidia propietary driver
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Whatever the reason to use newest kernel can be completely unrelated to Nvidia. It's not all about the GPU.
Last edited by Shmerl on 10 August 2020 at 9:12 pm UTC
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I have passed from Nvidia to AMD recently and in my own experience, i think there are some little issues with Mesa drivers, but this can be resolved with some tricks. If i had issues with propietary nvidia drivers it is more difficult to resolve.
AMD open-source drivers are very good. But the main issue is hardware accelerated renders in some applications like DaVinciResolve. Nvidia is better at this point. And OpenCL implementation is outdated (1.2 despite the last and speedy 2.0).