On Thursday, 08-08-2024 at 02:51 e...@gmx.us wrote:
> On 8/6/24 20:02, George at Clug wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote:
> >> Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau
> >> driver handles this card. Is this correct?
> >
> > With Debian Bookworm, I had Nvidia GTX 970 and Nvidia GTX 960 cards
> > working on Nouveau, depending on what "working" means to you. The
> > experience was limited, so most of the time I ran Debian packaged Nvidia
> > drivers, until recently replacing it with Radeon RX 6600.
> >
> > Using the Radeon RX 6600 allows people to install KDE ('out of the box',
> > as the phrase goes) and also run more games through Steam. Unless Nvidia
> > support greatly improves, I do not plan on using Nvidia GPUs. I should
> > have been implementing Radeon GPUs a long time ago. That's my view, for
> > what it is worth.
>
> Huh. I had this impression that Radeon made better hardware but their
> drivers were buggy, and Nvidia made better drivers but their hardware was
> buggy. Not true?
I could elaborate further if you want. However, in summary, my experience is
that both Nvidia and Radeon work well with used with their own drivers (as
packaged with Linux).
Sadly, due to limited support from Nvidia, many games, and other things like
KVM's virtio video drivers, Wayland, etc, do not work great.
It has been a better experience since moving to using Radeon, I wish I had made
the move sooner. I ensured my latest Laptop came with Radeon (thanks, HP), as I
could not get my previous Nvidia based 860M to work under Debian.
I had been staying with Nvidia for a long time, hoping they would, one day,
decide to be kinder to Linux. As they say, 'here's hoping'. I have several nice
Nvidia cards I could be using.
George.
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