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If one was thinking of building a good gaming PC soon (I probably can't begin to afford it, but you know, hypothetically), and wanted it to be mainly a Linux box, but hopefully still high end for gaming, would it be wise to buy just the GPU for it right now? Even though the rest of the components can't be purchased at the moment, maybe they can be later, at least the sky rocketing prices of the GPUs would have been avoided. Also, assuming this hobby is something this hypothetical person knows very little about, what GPU should they get? As far as best bet on being as future-proof as possible. It should be AMD for Linux, not NVIDIA right?
Get RAM first before it spikes worse. I'll be real, modern games aren't that much more demanding than 10 year old games if you want those 10 year old games at ultra settings and the modern ones at medium settings. A used or refurbished GPU would suit basically anyone's gaming needs just fine nowadays.
Supertuxkart doesnt need a high end GPU.
More serious answer: recommend just getting a very powerful integrated CPU/GPU combo. It should be able to play most games. A GPU is overkill if the goal is to play games and not just stare at them.
Its most similar to what the steam deck uses (integrated amd).
RAM might be going up faster than GPU prices? It's hard to tell what the best move right now is. CPU prices are probably not going to change much, and motherboards and PSUs use much more standardized components that are unlikely to skyrocket in price. One of (RAM, SSD, GPU) is going to be the best choice, can't say more than that.
Nvidia has Linux support, it's just not open source. I run amd on windows with no real issues for gaming. I think amd for Linux and Nvidia for windows is probably not wrong per say but highly exaggerated. (unless open source everything is critical for you).
Intel also produces a good card for the price, but driver support is not ideal. Getting better but not ideal. Avoid Intel at the moment if you don't want to tinker.
Considering Nvidia has been calling Israel their second home, I’d rather not have their drivers installed on my OS.