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Nvidia will stop price gouging you for their cards and features when you stop buying them. (lemmy.one)

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

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Sorry if I'm not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

at which point you have to go to specific distros or go through the PITA process of making it work, when AMD generally just works.

Ok, I agree with this point.

My counterargument is that those "specific distros" make up the vast majority of desktop Linux use. So it's less that you have to choose a specific distro and more that you have to avoid niche distros.
Doesn't invalidate the core of your argument though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don’t even understand the pushback.

I’m not shitting on nVidia or linux.

I’m just pointing out the well-known compatibility issues that are evident if you spend any amount of time browsing a linux support channel, which would be the only solid argument for not buying nvidia cards en masse aside from pricing (or if you wanted to build a hackintosh), if the linux userbase was significant enough or if there weren’t other distros to choose from.

Otherwise the vast majority of compatibility issues I see for pc gaming or emulation is in regards to AMD cards, so I wouldn’t bother buying one of those, no matter how much more affordable they might be. Just not worth the trouble when nVidia generally works as expected, or driver fixes are delivered faster.

edit: unless it’s a game bafflingly designed around AMD, like Starfield apparently