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  • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mltoArch Linux@lemmy.mlSwitching from Nvidia to AMD
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    8 days ago

    A bad experience? I’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years, since the late 90’s. My bad experience is finding communities dominated by people that only care about gaming and making things brain dead easy, from flatpaks to entire distributions designed to emulate the look and feel of Windows.

    And consoles? If it wasn’t for the Steamdeck/Proton 90% of you would still be running Windows. Even with all the advancements, Linux gamers are still less than 1.5% of the market share.

    Also, my closet 3090 machine runs EndeavourOS and ollama/stable diffusion. Endeavour is just Arch with an installer and a couple of shell scripts.



  • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mltoArch Linux@lemmy.mlSwitching from Nvidia to AMD
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    8 days ago

    If I’m paying $2k+ for a card, I want to be able to fully utilize it, and not just for the occasional bit of gaming.

    CUDA has far more support than ROCm for a variety of things, from 3D render/design applications to AI powered tools. Nothing sucks more than coming across a nifty app or tool and finding out you can’t use it because you chose the wrong GPU.


  • I tried the Zen browser for a week. At first, I really loved it, and kept raving about it to my co-workers. And then in the span of a single week, they made two completely bone headed design changes, with seemingly no direction or plan, and I knew I was out. I remember one of them was a floating address bar, but I don’t remember the second, I just remember even the options to revert back to the previous behavior only half worked.

    “Wouldn’t it be neat if” is ok for some projects, it’s not for a tool that I rely on so heavily to be consistent. I also liked Brave for a bit until I ran into a render engine/compatibility issue and when I checked the patch notes realized it was just run by Crypto-bros.

    For now I’ll stick with Firefox (profiles for Work and Personal) and qutebrowser (because keyboard is ‘the way’).