Nvidia was awful before the LLM craze, now they're awful AND evil.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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Fuck, what do I do when they inevitably discontinue support for 20xx? Just cry and accept that I no longer have a computer, as every component costs as much as a house? D:
I wasted days of my life getting nVidia to work on Linux. Too much stress. Screw that. Better ways to spend time. If I can't game, that's OK too.
I’m told AMD works better with Linux, but I haven’t tried it myself.
AMD is plug and play on Linux. With my 7800XT there isn’t a driver to install. Only issue is that AMD doesn’t make anything that competes with the 5080/5090.
Open source drivers are a major plus, I've had a much easier time than my partner on NVIDIA. I mean I make both machines work but the NVIDIA has been a real pig at times.
AMD is and has been much more friendly towards linux than nivdia. I run mine in proxmox passing through to linux and windows gaming VMs. AMD has invested in open source drivers.
https://thetechylife.com/does-amd-support-linux/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/linus-torvalds-says-f-k-you-to-nvidia/
Gnawh Penisburg. I'm still sporting a laptop with a 1070 from about a decade ago...
Just make 580 legacy. Problem solved. :) (It's already LTS though)
By the way, I have GTX 1080 and this seems to be end of the way. What is the similar AMD I can get, preferably second hand?
Maybe the RX 7600 XT.
It's in the second to latest generation (7000 not 9000), should be slightly faster than a GTX 1080, and doubles the VRAM capacity to 16 GB so you wouldn't be in danger of running into limitations with that too soon.
Sounds nice but let me rephrase. What is the similar AMD card that I can get by selling GTX 1080 without adding too much. I'm not looking for an upgrade anytime soon.
I'll switch to Debian if I must but I don't want to do that either unless I have to.
Hard to day what the used market is since is like, but the cheapest cards that would be broadly similar in performance would probably be the Arc A580, RX 5700 or RX 6600. This page has some rankings that are reasonable for comparison: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388-2.html
But...surely there's a way to just stick with the latest supported driver, right? Or is Arch truly an "upgrade or die" distro?
No idea, since I have no way of knowing how the second hand market around you looks like. I just looked for a similar (in performance) card, not of the newest gen so there would hopefully be some used models around.
I see, thanks for checking though. It seems I can sell GTX 1080 around 100$ here but RX 7600 XT is 320$ in second hand. Second hand market doesn't seem bright here. Even RX 6600 is around 150$. That might work for me but I guess I'll need to check a lot.
Here is old man me trying to fogure out what PASCAL code there is in the linux codebase, and how NVIDIA gets to drop it.
Anything that starts with a 10 according to the very first sentence in the article.
As a proud owner of a 10xx I can tell you I bought it in 2016 and I think it was about a year old at that point.
Same- Pascal was the first coding language I learned in high school. I was confused here.
I've had so many problems with Nvidia GPUs on Linux over the years that I now refuse to buy anything Nvidia. AMD cards work flawlessly and get very long-term support.
Same. Refuse to use NVIDIA going forward for anything.
Sadly GPU passthrough only worked on Nvidia cards when I was setting up my server, so I had to get one of them :(
I just replaced my old 1060 with a Radeon 6600 rx myself.
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I can't believe they would do this to poor Borland. I guess I'll just need to use an AMD GPU for my Turbo Pascal fun.
He tried to warn y'all...
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