Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.
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This is basically the reverse of how the regular gaming communities treat Linux. Take a best case for "your team", a worst case for the other, and then pretend it's always that way.
There's a lot of good ways to explain what makes Windows bad without being disingenuous :3
I'm not being cheeky. This is my actual experience as of this morning. I'm still fucking angry.
I assume you switched out your GPU for one of the same chip manufacturer? (AMD>AMD or NVIDIA>NVIDIA)
Then the linux scenario would very realistic, otherwise very much not.
AMD only in this house because fuck nvidia.
Finally i can say the same for me too :) I just didnt have a reason to upgrade from my perfectly good 1070 because i wasnt playing any heavy games. Now i have an inherited 6950xt which is a fuckin beast of a gpu :D
You're goddamn right
I switched from Nvidia to AMD with no issue. It probably wouldn't be as easy the other way around though.
Did this yesterday, checked the CachyOS wiki beforehand, ran the command it says to remove the Nvidia stuff, command apparently does nothing. Shut down, swap cards out. Started up, Cachy had a fit and wouldn't boot. Dropped into tty, manually removed all Nvidia packages, reinstalled AMD equivalents, rebooted and then it worked.
Yeah it also depends on how you installed the drivers. Some methods are super easy to uninstall but others are catastrophically complicated.
I never bothered to remove the Nvidia drivers. The kernel won't load the kernel module if it doesn't detect the card, and the gl/vk loaders correctly load the right implementations for the new card, so i never saw a need to remove them other than an extra download and dkms step when I do an update.
You are being slightly disingenuous though.
Like the Linux side is just steps, while the windows side had needless commentary that make the list longer.
I'm with you 96% though. Upgrading a GPU on Windows is a freaking nightmare. DDU being required is honestly insane.
On Linux it was painless. Though I do have my share of Linux problems.
Sorry, the installer you used played ads while you waited? Like, with audio? Where the fuck did you find that thing? Scrolling text for AMD's other products, sure, but I've never downloaded anything so egregious from AMD's website
Yup. I've had massive driver issues with lengthy troubleshooting on both Linux and Windows before. Even had to switch to a completely different distribution once, because it wouldn't play nice with my GPU.
If you pretend like everything always works seamlessly with Linux, you're bound to give people false expectations that will very likely be disappointed.
I found it relatable because just last night same thing happened in my windows boot, but all of a sudden it decided I had no wifi adapter, even though it worked fine in Linux and hadn't broken in Windows before. I see it indicating an error in device manager, found a "guide" that specifically called out that device manager error that suggests rebooting the router, because people writing websites troubleshooting guides are morons. The driver model has some weird behaviors that make device behavior more convoluted.
In Linux, generally it either loads and works or it doesn't and if it doesn't, you absolutely need a fixed driver or the hardware has a problem. In Windows it can absolutely not work and you go through some weird things, end up with exact same driver and version as before but suddenly it actually works..
Regular gaming on Windows Anno 2024 after a re-install where I spent a sizeable amount of time trying to understand why the fuck it is so hard to just run Windows11 with a local account:
Game is stuttering, dafuq(TM)!? Check privacy settings, all were reversed in the last update that I DID NOT install myself even though I sprung the wallet open for a pro license and deferred updates a week or so prior. Check netlimiter, telemetry collection time at Microsoft(TM) WTF!? Double check "local update sharing" is off, it is, it's likely really telemetry. WTF, Microsoft also enabled copilot by default on my machine?! Uninstall Windows. Spend a year on bazzite on both laptop and desktop. No major issues.
There's a remapping bug with the ROG falchion on linux that reauires a trivial txt file creation and copy to stop the keyboard from sending the PC into sleep mode. Otherwise, peachy.