Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: BrazilianGamerThat's awesome but there's a question that occurs to me every time I see these kinda news. Should I buy a Nvidia or an AMD card? Because on one hand, Nvidia is really spitting code on a weekly basis and really improving its drivers but on the other hand, AMD's driver is FOSS and is being improved at almost, if not the same pace as Nvidia's. What do you guys think about it?

You read my rant?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/4128/

Situation now is ok-ish. But it took quite some time to get there.

I read it. Yeah, can't say i don't agree with you. AMD customers should have prime support from day 1. It's a terrible experience, competitively speaking, if your customers, regardless of their platform, don't see a company offering a good support for their products. I think I'll go with Nvidia. Their support is improving fast so it's their drivers. Don't get me wrong, they're just doing that because of Stadia that uses their cards and is built upon Debian and there's lots of servers running their product but hey, at least we are getting benefited from it anyways

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: BrazilianGamerShould I buy a Nvidia or an AMD card?

Nvidia provide same-day support for their hardware with their proprietary driver. The proprietary driver has some quirks, since that same-day support is because it shares its pedigree with their Windows driver. With AMD you need to wait a while for the support to be enabled, then trickle down to end users, and then be polished up. If you're on a rolling release distro, or don't mind getting your hands dirty, or have an older card, so that you can get AMD's wine as soon as it becomes fine, AMD works OK.

If you want the highest performance, AMD doesn't currently have anything that competes with Nvidia's high end. For the mid-range, where most people are, there are plenty of options from both of them to choose from, so you can pick whichever matches your budget, performance requirements, and preferences.

Edit to add: this is for desktops, since you mentioned getting a card. When it comes to laptops, don't go for Nvidia. Optimus is just a nightmare.

Thanks man

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That's awesome but there's a question that occurs to me every time I see these kinda news. Should I buy a Nvidia or an AMD card? Because on one hand, Nvidia is really spitting code on a weekly basis and really improving its drivers but on the other hand, AMD's driver is FOSS and is being improved at almost, if not the same pace as Nvidia's. What do you guys think about it?

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Quoting: WorMzy

Quoting: BrazilianGamerDebian is the market standard.

What market are you talking about? Red Hat is the industry standard and has been for a long time. IBM didn't buy them for no good reason. :P

If you read my comment again, you'll see I was talking about applications. Not hegemony in servers. In servers there's no doubt Red hat wins in a landslide. But still, when companies or individuals think about creating any application, the first distro they know they have to support is Ubuntu or any other debian based distros in general. Simply because they are the most used therefore, popular and of course, there's a bigger chance of revenue if it is a paid software or just to have a bigger userbase.

The crap thing about that is Ubuntu trying to move away from Debian packages, and instead to adopt their own Snap package management. I get that Ubuntu wants to try to make themselves special, but all that does is make them less stable, and less wanted. So many developers in the past have made excuses not to support Linux because of all the variations, but for years it has basically been Debian+RPM based systems. Any of the other distributions have people smart enough to convert packages from deb/rpm. But then Red Hat comes out with Flatpak, that everyone adopts... except Ubuntu, who decides to push snap...

Sorry, rant over. We will see how much the next few Ubuntu releases screw the pooch.

That's the good and bad of Linux. Fragmentation. It's always been that way and I don't see it changing in the short term. It's good for freedom of choice but not good for developers. That's why devs rather launch a game for Mac than for Linux. Maybe I'm a little biased here because I've always used Debian based distros, just Ubuntu actually. But, let's see how it plays out. May it is for the good of Linux gaming as a whole.

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Quoting: WorMzy

Quoting: BrazilianGamerDebian is the market standard.

What market are you talking about? Red Hat is the industry standard and has been for a long time. IBM didn't buy them for no good reason. :P

If you read my comment again, you'll see I was talking about applications. Not hegemony in servers. In servers there's no doubt Red hat wins by a landslide. But still, when companies or individuals think about creating any application, the first distro they know they have to support is Ubuntu or any other debian based distros in general. Simply because they are the most used therefore, popular and of course, there's a bigger chance of revenue if it is a paid software or just to have a bigger userbase.

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Debian is the market standard. All applications target primarily Ubuntu or any other Debian based distros. It would be like going against the normal industry flow if Valve used any arch or Red hat(Cent OS) based distributions. Let's see. Well, Canonical has given some reasons for them to ditch Ubuntu in favor of other distros I have to admit. Time will tell

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Kudos to Colabora, only

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So nice to see Valve being so quick on answering Linux related questions. #ValveFTW

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That's why I love open source. All kudos possible to both devs

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What a nice selection my friend

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