• ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    AMD is better than NVidia, just because AMD did not spend years screwing the Linux community out of drivers. I do not need that additional bajillisecond of speed that I do not notice anyways just to use NVidia’s bullshit. Seeing Linus Torvalds flip off NVidia with a very public “fuck you” is one of the most satisfying things I have ever seen. NVidia can eat a dick!

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      just because AMD did not spend years screwing the Linux community out of drivers.

      They did, actually. It’s just that they did that a long time ago. I vividly remember a time when I avoided AMD hardware because, while Nvidia’s drivers were closed source, at least they worked. AMD’s drivers, when they worked at all, gave severely degraded performance compared to what that same hardware was capable of in Windows.

      Fortunately, those days seem to be behind us now.

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      9 hours ago

      Right and I agree. All my recent hardware purchases in the last 3 years have all been AMD.

      I have SOME Nvidia hardware right now and I’m sure other people do too. Unfortunately, AMD is lagging behind in some key scenarios that will hopefully be resolved in the near future. AMD knows this and doesn’t compete in the high end currently (outside of Datacenter).

      I do like to think that AMDs apus are the future and the death of the discrete GPU is imminent. I have been looking at things like the 395 AI MAX (poorly named CPU) for some testing but right now it doesn’t make sense to hop platforms financially.