Quite liking it so far, though it’s a bit like stepping back 20 years with the fiddling to get some games working. Next step will probably be ditching the Nvidia card for something else.
Quite liking it so far, though it’s a bit like stepping back 20 years with the fiddling to get some games working. Next step will probably be ditching the Nvidia card for something else.
Nvidia is the main reason I went with Pop!OS. it just works. heck I’m honestly surprised people are still having issues on other distros.
but now you have already got it working there’s no need to make plans to upgrade for a good long while. Things could change in the market many times before a 3080 isn’t good enough, shit it will probably burn out before that’s the case.
I went from an ATI Raedon to a 3060 Ti. Graphics cards don’t need to be upgraded very often and I think we’ve hit a tipping point where, like I said, the electronics will die long before the gaming performance is unacceptable.
People exaggerate issues with Nvidia. There’s certainly some substance to it, but having used Nvidia for ~10 years on Linux, it’s fine. The main caveats only really apply if you’re on a bleeding edge distro and want the latest features working.
Here are the issues I’ve had:
That’s it. It largely works fine. You probably won’t get all of the features (not sure about the state of DLSS and RTX on Linux), but it’ll get the job done.
I’ve since switched to AMD and am happier, but if i found a good deal on an Nvidia card, I’d switch back.
Bazzite gets drivers quickly since it’s a rolling release with updates once a week. I’d assume Pop OS might feel better on Nvidia because it hasn’t switched to Wayland, yet.
Nvidia isn’t a bad experience on Bazzite or other Universal Blue OSs. But AMD is better.
You can run Wayland out of the box but there’s ironically non-graphical issues that have stopped me from giving it the time of day.
Never noticed any graphical issues in the time I was using it, but it wasn’t long.
Wayland on nvidia for me only has annoying glitches. Nothing serious.
Sure if I were getting a new card I’d consider amd. But the issues have only been a minor annoyance.
My issues were minor, too. I just wanted to make things as smooth as possible, and to also sell my 3070 while it still held some value. I ended up being able to transition to a 7800XT for only $200. Now, it really wasn’t much of an upgrade, but I’m happy to be off of Windows and Nvidia.