Quite liking it so far, though it’s a bit like stepping back 20 years with the fiddling to get some games working. Next step will probably be ditching the Nvidia card for something else.
I had a similar arc this year. I did go through with switching from Nvidia to AMD. I started with Bazzite, but ended up on Aurora.
I’m very happy ditching Windows.
Definitely ditch Nvidia. I bought an AMD one and it works with Linux without any hassle or tinkering.
AMD has been great on Linux.
I’m curious about Intel’s cards, though. They seem to be offering some solid competition now, but I haven’t heard anything about their Linux support.
Good to know. Will probably be a while before I replace it though as it’s a 3080. Will just play the games that work in the meantime (which is most of them so far).
Keep an eye on the NVK project.
Nvidia is the main reason I went with Pop!OS. it just works. heck I’m honestly surprised people are still having issues on other distros.
but now you have already got it working there’s no need to make plans to upgrade for a good long while. Things could change in the market many times before a 3080 isn’t good enough, shit it will probably burn out before that’s the case.
I went from an ATI Raedon to a 3060 Ti. Graphics cards don’t need to be upgraded very often and I think we’ve hit a tipping point where, like I said, the electronics will die long before the gaming performance is unacceptable.
Bazzite gets drivers quickly since it’s a rolling release with updates once a week. I’d assume Pop OS might feel better on Nvidia because it hasn’t switched to Wayland, yet.
Nvidia isn’t a bad experience on Bazzite or other Universal Blue OSs. But AMD is better.
Wayland on nvidia for me only has annoying glitches. Nothing serious.
Sure if I were getting a new card I’d consider amd. But the issues have only been a minor annoyance.
My issues were minor, too. I just wanted to make things as smooth as possible, and to also sell my 3070 while it still held some value. I ended up being able to transition to a 7800XT for only $200. Now, it really wasn’t much of an upgrade, but I’m happy to be off of Windows and Nvidia.
For the record, I find it’s harder to get all display features working (HDR, VRR, HDMI 2.1 support and so forth) than to get Nvidia drivers installed. Linux’s display issues aren’t just Nvidia compatibility. Particularly on Bazzite, where they have a specific install for Nvidia with the drivers baked in.
Nvidia isn’t very bad on Linux but I can agree about the installation of drivers manually is annoying
The drivers still need to get better. For instance, it still doesn’t support multi monitor VRR in Wayland.
ohh okay,I only have 1 monitor so oh well.
