I am going to buy a new graphics card and can’t choose between Nvidia and AMD. I know that Nvidia has bad reputation in Linux community but how really it works? And I heard recently their drivers got better. What can you recommend?

P. S. I don’t want any proprietary drivers (so I am talking about Nouveau or any other FOSS Nvidia driver if it exists)

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    18 hours ago

    Just to add some variation to these comments.

    Nvidia works absolutely fine on (arch) linux, that needs to be said. Performance is on par with windows.

    Depending on what your needs are its the better choice. (I have a few pieces of software that greatly rely on CUDA)

    But the elephant in the room is your need for non proprietary driver. The only open source nvidia does is the strict minimum to catch up and stay competitive on linux (they where losing before). There is a clear winner on this front. Que all the other comments.