Nvidia is still finicky. Should work the majority of the time, but you'll have more bugs with Nvidia for sure (ask me how I know), though less than Nouveau.
However, NVK may be changing that fact. It's a successor to Nouveau, and it is built upon a new codebase. The only downside (-ish) is that it only works on RTX series cards and beyond, and it's an unfortunate limitation because of how they were able to reverse engineer the newer RTX API to make a better driver.
But at this point, I'd still go with an AMD 6700XT or better to get the best experience on Linux (dunno how Intel Arc cards are).
Non Nvidia will give you the best over all experience. That said I do have 3 systems running Linux with Nvidia. But one of them is headless, and I can't use Wayland on the other two because the Nvidia driver shits the bed hard with one particular app. However if I don't run that app Nvidia and Wayland are pretty stable and smooth. Not as smooth or stable as AMD or Intel and Wayland. But decent.
And depending on your needs. I just picked up an overclocked RX 580 sapphire on eBay for 60 bucks. Which is pretty decent for 1080p gaming.
In my last job I worked with electroplating power supplys. When the 40 series come out I joked with my boss that it is matter of time when we will need something like this in our PCs.
With my G604, the rubber sheet on top of the mouse comes loose after 2 years or so. Started again yesterday. Once it starts to disintegrate, I'll just leave Logitech behind for good.
Yeah, I used to have a pair of logitech G35 headphones and they were the best headphones I've ever had. When they eventually broke I replaced them with the newer G635 and they're so much worse. I can't even use the buttons on them because they don't send any keycode at all before being initialized by the software which is windows only
Oddly enough, the only mouse that I've NEVER had issues with is a 5$ chinese MMO mouse with zero software or 'fancy crap' embedded. It just works. That mouse is now $50 for some reason.
I have to say i own a decent amount of Corsair hardware (kb+m, RAM, SSD and PSU), and none has ever given me an issue. Most of it I got a few years back so maybe that was before they declined?
Compared to Razer, where I've owned 3 mice and all of them failed one way or another. Decent keyboards though.
Have to disagree on EVGA. I’ve purchased a lot of their hardware and any time I had an issue their support and RMAs were great. I’m really sad they got out of the video card business.
I have had probably 5 of their video cards and 4 or 5 of their power supplies. I've had one video card die a month before the 3 year warranty was up, and they sent me a much more powerful card as a replacement. That's good service.
I've had one power supply die and they cross shipped me a replacement, had it 3 days later.
Nothing is bulletproof, components fail. It's how the company handles it that matters, to me.
That means they have good customer service, but surely you see that every example is more data for the OPs claim that the hardware isn't up to snuff yeah?
Jumping on the Logitech hardware trashing. Bought two G613 keyboards in the past couple years. Each one failed shortly after the 1 year warranty period. Both had the same double pressing chatter issue. I’ve been avoiding their mice for a while due to double clicking problems.
My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.
Finally I searched the issue, and it's normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one's left button is acting up a bit.
A non-asshole company would have notified me "Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?". And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?
Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.
400+, paid for 0. Won't give them a dime until Sweeney stops with his anti-linux shenanigans, and the "buying exclusivity" thing doesn't make me too happy either
That full screen win 11 thing had me going for a while until I noticed the "opt out" button. When an OS starts to become obtrusive, I start to look for alternatives. The primary reason I use Windoze is because of gaming and most of that is through Steam. SO, now that the Steam Deck has pushed some great improvements in gaming on Linux, Linux MINT may be in my near future.
I already use open office on my home machine instead of the MS Office I have to use at work.
Highly highly recommend Nobara over Mint if you're primarily going to be gaming. It's a fork of Fedora by Glorious Eggshell Eggroll (the guy behind Proton-GE), who himself works for Redhat.
It. just. works.
v40 should be out within a week or two of Fedora 40 dropping on the 23rd.
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