• technologicalcaveman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I started using linux when I had an nvidia gpu, it worked alright enough. Not many drivers issues, most of my issues were age related for the gpu itself. I did swap to all AMD hardware for my new computer. The swap to AMD is nice. I did upgrade everything from my previous stuff, so no matter what I expected an increase of performance. I do notice that my resource usage is lower and general speed for mundane tasks is better.

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      1 year ago

      Nvidia drivers have some kind of stupid locking issue when it comes to creating windows, when my phone spams me notifications to pushbullet or kdeconnect it locks up half my system.

      AMD has none of that, windows pop up like nothing, kind of impressed because I’d been team green since literally forever (back when fglrx was a crashy pos).

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        1 year ago

        It’s only been a few weeks, but yeah I noticed that I don’t have to fight my windows as often. Games don’t have issues with odd window layouts either.

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          1 year ago

          Nvidia used to be the gold standard for Linux graphics, they’ve slowly slid and Intel had good drivers even if the hw was weak, but amd is really making a solid showing right now, especially considering their legacy of decent hardware with garbage software.

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            1 year ago

            For me, I don’t care if the software is rough as long as the drivers work. The amd apps were annoying when I was doing things in Windows, but after I got my updates I closed it all out. I don’t plan on interacting with them much.

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              1 year ago

              No, so ATI had a pretty bad software group that was just limping along, somewhere around the 2xx series they admitted it and made a huge push to get a decent software team in. They were hiring hard and got some decent engineers, coupled with their really weak ones after, they started making good headroom, and over time (partly because they were forced to by the islands series) they slowly and painfully made better drivers.

              They hired a new Sr. Director, before that they were given so much leeway, they had garbage like fglrx which crashed a lot and was closed source, but once they open sourced it got better fast, because they couldn’t live with spaghetti code.