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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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[–] • 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

Yeah, I don't build new towers often. My last system was over 10 years old and was a like 2nd gen intel i7.

My wife is on an AM4 since I built her system a while ago. I went for the Ryzen9 and AM5 since Ill just keep adding more ram or upgrading the GFX card on this tower for at least 8 years. She does a lot less with her system so it should hold out for about as long doing the same thing over time.

My 'old' systems get repurposed for the homelab if they are still in good working order. My old desktop I actually repurposed as a VR rig since it is good enough for that type of gaming still.