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.

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    574·
    2 months ago

    This is upgrading your AMD GPU on Linux. If it were nvidia then it’d be just as long as the Windows part, from what my friends have said

    • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I would say by my experience, in order from easiest to most difficult, it’s AMD on Linux, then Nvidia on windows, Nvidia on Linux. I haven’t had a recent enough experience with amd on windows, but from what I hear its like you either install drivers then it works or you gotta do some crazy shit like op did to unbork something.

      I’d still rather deal with Nvidia on Linux than anything to do with modern windows if I have the choice, especially with the insane amount of anti-features+spyware they seem to be shipping it with these days.

    • favoredponcho@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Linux doesn’t know when to switch graphics rendering from CPU to GPU for me. When you launch a game it should switch. I have had to fix this repeatedly. Whenever I install a new NVIDIA driver, I have to fix it again.

      • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        That might be changing in the near future. Hybrid GPU work is currently being worked on a bunch.

    • FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Idk, my upgrade to 4060 went pretty smoothly, though I was upgrading from another Nvidia card, so I had the official driver already installed…

    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Perhaps now that nvidia’s new driver excludes gtx-1000 series and older you would have to enter some commands to switch over gracefully.

      For my 2070 to 5070 upgrade nothing was needed.