I finally did it and got an used RX 6950 XT to replace my GTX 1080 Ti. I’ve been using this card ever since I moved to Linux and now I’m wondering what exactly I have to do. On Windows it’s mostly run DDU and install the new AMD drivers, everything else will probably work the same with Afterburner etc....
Mesa drivers for opengl, vulkan, etc. are likely already installed, what you need to install are the mesa-va and mesa-vdpau drivers for video acceleration. Other than that, you just need to make sure the GPU doesn’t stay in power saving mode when you play.
Btw, video acceleration with Nvidia mostly works if you use this.
Hmmm. That’s suspicious, there’s a number of things in the way of video acceleration with that setup.
First of all, the fact that on fedora (ublue is a derivative of fedora) you need to install openh264 from dnf and not from Firefox extension manager, and then you still need to change some settings in about:config . Second, you are using a flatpak, I’m not sure if openh264 needs to be installed “inside the flatpak”. And last, it might just be the Nvidia.
I doubt it’s representative of the population. Because it’s from self reporting, at best it’s representative of those who advocate their favourite platform, which is just a particular portion of the population. Though it would be cool to see Wayland surpass X
But it’s so cool! It looks like some brutalist paranormal manifestation. Like, I bet the distorted part of the oldest house (from the game Control) looked like this from the outside.
When they finish the words with G they can just add another layer of recursion and create BIG, an acronym for “BIG Is GNU”. And from there go on like a word chain game
On Windows, Nvidia without thinking twice. On Linux, depends, on rDNA 4 and the next release of Nvidia drivers, but probably still Nvidia.
Unfortunately, despite how much I would rather buy from someone else, AMD’s products are just inferior, especially software.
Examples of AMD being worse:
AMD’s implementation of opengl is a joke, the open source implementation used on Linux is several times faster and made for free by volunteers, without internal knowledge
AMD will never run physx, which is every day less relevant, but if AMD from the past had proposed an alternative we would have a standardized physics extension in DirectX by now, like with dlss
AMD’s ray accelerators are “incomplete” compared to Nvidia RT cores, which is why ray tracing is better on Nvidia, and which is why with rDNA 4 they are changing how they work
GCN was terrible and very different from Nvidia’s architecture, it was hard to optimize for both. rDNA is more similar, but now AMD has a plethora of old junk to maintain compatible with rDNA
Nvidia has been constantly investing in new software technologies (nowadays it’s mainly AI), AMD didn’t and now it’s always playing catch up
AMD also has its wins, for example:
They often make their stuff open source, mainly because it’s convenient for its underdog position
Has a pretty good software stack on Linux (much better than on windows) partly because it’s not entirely done by them
Nvidia has been a bad faith actor for many years on the Linux space, even if it’s in its redemption arc
Modern GPU seems to be catching up in compute performance
AMD is less greedy with VRAM, mainly because they are less at risk of competing with their own enterprise lineup
Current Nvidia’s prices are stupid
I would still prefer Nvidia right now, but maybe it’s gonna change with the next releases.
P.s. I have used a GTX 1060, an RX 480, and a Vega 56
I’m literally using a full AMD PC right now. I don’t like Nvidia as much as the next person. I think they use terrible monopolistic practices, and if the competition were on par I would not buy Nvidia. But they aren’t.
Well, if you are not gonna use Nvidia’s extra stuff, buy an AMD, by all means.
But what you say is disingenuous. “AI and other software” is not entirely unrelated to gaming. Things like hairworks, physx, and most gameworks in general run on CUDA. And for AI (which I don’t care about that much) there is DLSS, and they are working on AI enhanced rendering.
Most games don’t use those technologies, but some do, and you will miss out on those.
Yeah that would be terrible, imagine if you were to run some updates and the package manager went like “Get <name of the distro> Pro! You will get better updates and support”
So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...
The USB protocol was simple by design, so it could be implemented in small dumb devices like pen drives. More specifically, it used two couples of cables, one couple was for power and the other for data (four wires in total). Having a single half-duplex data line means you need some way of arbitrating who can send data at any time. The easiest way to do it is having a single machine that decides who gets to send data (master), and the easiest way to decide the master is to not do it and have the computer always do the master. This means you couldn’t connect two computers together because they would both try to be the master.
I used the past tense because you may have noticed that micro USB have 5 pins and not 4, that’s because phones are computers and they use the 5th pin to decide how to behave. If it’s grounded they act as a slave (the male micro to male A cable grounds it). If it has a resistor (the otg cable has it) it act as master. And if the devices are connected with a wire on that pin (on some special micro to micro) they negotiate the connection.
When they made usb 3.0 and they realized that not having the 5th wire on the usb-A was stupid, so they put it (along side some extra data lines) that’s why they have an odd number of wires. So with usb 3 you can connect computers together, but you need a special cable that uses the negotiation wire. Also I don’t know what software you need for it to work.
Usb-c is basically two USB 3.0 in the same cable, so you can probably connect computers with that. But often the port on the devices only uses one, so it might not be faster. Originally they put the pins for two connections so you could flip the connector, but later they realized they could use them to get double speed.
TikTok a rischio anche in Ue? Von der Leyens: «bando non è escluso»
“Conosciamo la sua pericolosità”, dice la presidente della Commissione Ue uscente. Social replica “timori infondati” e cita le misure prese per la sicurezza.
Noi però ci chiediamo: subito dopo passiamo a bloccare Facebook, Instagram e X? oppure, come al solito, facciamo cose solo in quanto filiale sfigata di Washington? 😂
Il mio punto è che l’unione europea ha già dimostrato di non avere (come è giusto) bisogno dell’iniziativa degli usa per mettere alle strette qualche colosso del web. Il fatto che ora nello specifico si parli di TikTok è chiaramente una conseguenza delle azioni di Washington, ma per me è da vedersi più come un “non restare indietro” che un “facciamo come dice l’America”.
(all’interno un jpg ultraricompresso stile deep fried memes con classico scam “la polizia dei minori ti denuncia mandaci qualche migliaio di euro per patteggiare”)
Just wanted to share for the 10 people like me who has with an Nvidia + dual screen setup on ArchLinux (btw) with KDE Plasma desktop that since the new plasma 6 update I can finally use the Wayland session option!...
What is available is a x11 server, not more not less, it cannot be used for anything other than x11. If they made X12, it would not work on Nvidia, unless they wrote a new server, which they wouldn’t.
You need to understand that the xorg server everyone use literally does not work on Nvidia, because it uses implicit sync, which is required by the Linux infrastructure. The only thing that works on Nvidia it’s specifically their own proprietary server.
Nvidia does a lot of impressive stuff, but they have neglected the Linux scene for a long time, because it wasn’t convenient, and it shows.
Edit: …what was available… because Nvidia is gradually implementing things the correct way, and Wayland is becoming more and more usable with every driver update. Because, surprise surprise, it does depend on the drivers. Also, both Intel and AMD work perfectly with Wayland.
Switching from Nvidia to AMD Graphics
I finally did it and got an used RX 6950 XT to replace my GTX 1080 Ti. I’ve been using this card ever since I moved to Linux and now I’m wondering what exactly I have to do. On Windows it’s mostly run DDU and install the new AMD drivers, everything else will probably work the same with Afterburner etc....
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
Source: linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
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why cant we connect 2 computers using USB
So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...
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Anyone else experiencing this?
Detailed issue...
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Finally switched to Wayland with KDE+NVIDIA
Just wanted to share for the 10 people like me who has with an Nvidia + dual screen setup on ArchLinux (btw) with KDE Plasma desktop that since the new plasma 6 update I can finally use the Wayland session option!...