Hi so I was wondering what gpu vendor had the best support intel, amd or nvidia In the future I wanna upgrade my mid range pc and I dual boot cachyos (arch btw) and windows 11 (to play game that don’t work on linux)

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve never used an AMD graphics card, but I recently got into gaming in Linux with my NVidia card and this is one of the things I have to deal with.

    • I want to launch a game.
    • There’s a problem
    • Oh are my drivers up to date?
    • apt-get update & upgrade
    • check driver version
    • check online for latest driver
    • I think flatpaks need to be updated as well? I’m new to flatpaks too.

    But yeah, you gotta check all the time.

    • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      AMD (or anything that uses Mesa drivers really) just works out of the box. That pain is unique to NVIDIA.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Presumably some games at some point needed the user to update the kernel for an updated AMD driver?

        • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 month ago

          It is definitely relevant if you buy new hardware when it’s initially released, although Mesa devs seem to be getting better at having it mostly ready by that point. I know historically there were times where you really had to be at the very bleeding edge, and updating to the very latest kernel and firmware was necessary.