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Linux gamers, what distro are you currently on?
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You know.. at least for me, I think I'm past the stage of being horrified over having to use proprietary drivers. I know it's not as nice as a pure open source system, but still.. it gets my system to run better, it's free and it's still Linux. So in my opinion it's a good tradeoff still.
I do get why purists would hate it though and I wish you'd get the same performance with a completely free system.
As far as I know, it's not entirely about some purism ideal they have in mind - the difference between the two nvidia camps on Linux is the functionality you gain with both drivers, and the proprietary driver is simply more restrictive, so, yeah, I agree that they have a point.
This is the reason I know very well that my next GPU is going to be an AMD one (given that their hardware has proper open source source by that time, that is). I bought by GPU back in 2017 or 2018, I think, a couple of years before using Linux and even considering it - had I known that today's me was going to run LInux, I would've gone for an AMD GPU right away.
Even skipping the Nvidia driver debates, the AMD hardware has been a much more consistent and pleasant experience for me on Linux overall across several AMD-based laptops that I have installed Linux on. While I did manage to get things going on my desktop that has an Nvidia GPU, it definitely caused me more headache than I expected.
Good points all around. I suppose AMD would be a better choice when the time comes to upgrade. There's no real down sides to them either compared to Nvidia except maybe not supporting the same ray traving tech?
I'm a bit out of the loop there though.