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Which GPU to choose for Linux gaming? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so my old GPU died a few days ago and I was thinking which brand of GPU to get next. AMD or Nvidia? I've heard Nvidia drivers are very annoying with Linux but I've never had an AMD GPU before. Which would be better? I'll sometimee switch to Windows to play specific games as well.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not Nvidia, they do not play well with Linux. I've had all sorts of weird problems that I've traced back to driver errors caused by Nvidia, both proprietary and open source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm on a 2060 super with Manjaro and I haven't had any issue with drivers other than when I accidently uninstalled all the drivers at once, and then it was just a matter of running a command found from googling to get it back up and running.

I haven't tried an AMD card, and I'm strongly considering it for my next, but I just haven't seen you have a issues people report.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

If you do already have an Nvidia GPU, may I suggest trying Bazzite? They have an Nvidia spin that solves a lot of those problems.

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/