@Taffer isn't it funny different people's experience? I've been using NVIDIA drivers for years without issue. pre 42 I sometimes had bumps and the odd problem, but my last few cards have been great. Currently got a GTX1650. I am on LEAP though - so maybe this is a use case where Tumbleweed's bleeding edge is a disadvantage?
@bluegeeko I've been using nVidia drivers under Kubuntu without any problems, but Kubuntu definitely doesn't push out new kernels as rapidly as Tumbleweed...
@Taffer true, its why I prefer Leap though. Ive been toying with switching to TW, but for what reason? A measure of stability and predictability is best for me and the release cycle fits better with other commitments. That said TW is heavily tested and BTRFS rollback feature seems to work a treat for when there are problems.
@Taffer im on OpenSuSe PC with AMD and Nvidia GPU.
Nvidia GPU driver is absolute 100% disaster in Linux, and not even "installing"(it is annoying to install compatibility of Nvidia driver with kernel sources broke like few times per year)
UI-experience - Nvidia "barely" support wayland even being second GPU it just kill FPS below 60 on what you can have 1500 fps on Windows.
CUDA - it it working but "while you use CUDA everything else may die, especially Vulkan" - usable as second GPU only.
@Taffer AMD driver integrated to kernel so even if AMD driver broke you fix it by installing/downgrading to previous kernel.
User experience with Nvidia on Linux is just horrible because performance, CUDA is something you can say "only works".
AMD - also "far from perfect" and if you go for "cheapest AMD hardware" you may find alot of instability of your system-kernel panic etc, but if you use good-stable enough hardware - you will have about 100 times less "problems" with AMD, and use Wayland.
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