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Manjaro updated to it this past weekend. It's been an utter nightmare. It's not distro specific. The errors and issues are across almost all distros. If your distro does not allow you to stay on a stable driver (Read: Most rolling distros, but not all), or if you're forced to brute force drivers for something older in, beware.

I'm actually switching to Mint as a result of this, because Arch and Manjaro are fucky about maintaining "old" drivers

Manjaro updated to it this past weekend. It's been an utter nightmare. It's not distro specific. The errors and issues are across almost all distros. If your distro does not allow you to stay on a stable driver (Read: Most rolling distros, but not all), or if you're forced to brute force drivers for something older in, beware. I'm actually switching to Mint as a result of this, because Arch and Manjaro are fucky about maintaining "old" drivers

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[–] • 5 pts

You should switch to AMD. Support has been far and away better than Nvidia. And it's out of the box. No fuckery with getting the driver installed. Updates come with a system update.

[–] • 4 pts

I want to, but I can't afford new hardware on a toilet cleaner salary, and the used market is very dry right now.

[–] • 4 pts

Understandable. I think I got my last GPU like 3 or 4 years ago, so not sure how the market has been going there.

[–] • 3 pts

new cards in the XX60 range for Nvidia, X600 range of AMD are around 300-350. Used market can get 1 or 2 gens prior for 250ish. I got my 2070 super used last year for 175

[–] • 3 pts

Thanks for the warning. I used to run mostly stuff like Fedora/Arch at home but got lazy and just started putting mint on everything.

My homeservers are all various versions of things I wanted to mess with but mostly Rocky Linux right now.

[–] • 3 pts

Supposedly (From what the forums say), Nvidia is going to a "Forward thinking" approach. So this driver was designed soley with 50 series in mind. a 2070 super, like mine, is a back burner issue that can be resolved by just "using an older driver", which would be fine, assuming my distro allowed me to roll back to something older.....

If you can afford it, just use AMD or Intel in the future. I'm trying to find something affordable in AMD now, cause I'm sick of this Nvidia bullshit.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah, my "old" graphics cards (some stuff in home servers for AI stuff I'm playing with at home) are old Nvidia cards I used to use until I built new desktops for myself and my wife. Both are now full AMD (GPU, CPU, etc).

I have really liked this Ryzen 9.

[–] • 1 pt

Those Ryzen 9 are sick. The benchmarks on them blow ANYTHING that intel has out of the water. I have a 5800X (7) for a new rig I will build for my wife in the future, simply because AM4 is cheaper overall to put together. DDR4 is about 50 bucks cheaper per 32gb, and the motherboards are 50-100 less.

[–] • 2 pts

The AMD cards (at least the newer models) have been having issues with Source games crashing on launch.

[–] • 1 pt

AMD also has issues with some AAA titles where Nvidia doesn't (in Proton, at least). My son still has some crashing issues in Marvel Rivals, and he's on a 6700xt

[–] • 1 pt

The cost of being based...

[–] • 0 pt

I WISH I could get my hands on one of those new Intel Battlemage beasties. I'd LOVE To take a B580 for a spin. But there's no supply for the demand, and the few cards that are floating around are chinese company shit that probably has backdoor spyware in the hardware