Dojan comments on The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balance

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If one is on Linux I’d urge to avoid NVidia like the plague. Replaced my 4070 Super with an AMD card and I’ve had zero problems since.

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I've been slowly switching the family PCs I manage for exactly this reason. I've warned my family that if windows stops working, I'm installing Linux on their PCs and will sit down with them to train them how to use it rather than put up with Windows anymore. Someday I'll be windows free, except for the office but I don't have any control over company property.

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

I thankfully have two company laptops, one with NixOS on it. It's rare that I need to use the Windows one.

My own computer runs on Tumbleweed. Every time there was an issue when doing a system upgrade, it was because of that fucking NVidia card. Thankfully with Tumbleweed you have Snapper functionality built in so rolling back is easy as hell, but there was a decent amount of time lost to troubleshooting and workarounds that I've just not experienced since switching from NVidia's garbage.

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