so my old GPU died a few days ago and I was thinking which brand of GPU to get next. AMD or Nvidia? I’ve heard Nvidia drivers are very annoying with Linux but I’ve never had an AMD GPU before. Which would be better? I’ll sometimee switch to Windows to play specific games as well.
Not Nvidia, they do not play well with Linux. I’ve had all sorts of weird problems that I’ve traced back to driver errors caused by Nvidia, both proprietary and open source.
I’m on a 2060 super with Manjaro and I haven’t had any issue with drivers other than when I accidently uninstalled all the drivers at once, and then it was just a matter of running a command found from googling to get it back up and running.
I haven’t tried an AMD card, and I’m strongly considering it for my next, but I just haven’t seen you have a issues people report.
If you do already have an Nvidia GPU, may I suggest trying Bazzite? They have an Nvidia spin that solves a lot of those problems.
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/