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Is AMD really that much better?
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I'm curious, what exactly did break?
First time I installed CUDA, it worked for a bit and then I rebooted and got stuck on "loading initial ramdisk". I had to chroot in from the installer and remove both cuda and the nvidia driver.
The next time I ran a normal system upgrade and steam didn't launch anymore, so I had to manually downgrade the nvidia packages.
Can't say I've used CUDA much, but in my experience (which includes over a couple dozens of computers running Nvidia drivers on Arch) a system upgrade has never broken a system because of Nvidia drivers in Arch. Make sure you use the dkms package, otherwise you need to remember to rebuild the modules for kernel or driver updates, this is a deliberate decision by Arch system. Although that's probably not what happened to you, otherwise it would have reverted to open source drivers, and steam works perfectly fine with those. In fact unless you're using Wayland I can't think of a reason why steam wouldn't launch that's related to GPU drivers.