I am trying to repeat my 10 Benchmarks video on my 3080M laptop, which I haven’t really used for a while apart from testing NVK. I had forgotten just HOW much Nvidia sucks. I had to reinstall the OS cause OpenSUSE stopped booting after I installed the drivers the first time. X11 is ALSO buggy on Nvidia and crashes randomly. windows won’t show, the Steam Friends List window hangs. This is almost unusable.

NAK and GSP cannot be merged soon enough so I can get rid of this proprietary atrocity.

  • ayaya
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    8 months ago

    To be fair AMD recently had a bug where the 6000 series GPUs would sit at 96 mhz unless you set your refresh rate below 100hz and that also took a couple months to be fixed. I was randomly getting 20fps in every game until I managed to find this gitlab issue. It started in kernel 6.4 and wasn’t fixed until 6.6 so I had to play at 90hz on my 165hz monitor for that whole span.

    • @entropicdrift
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      78 months ago

      This is why LTS kernels are a good thing. I used 6.1 that entire time and didn’t even know the issue existed on my 6700XT

      • @vividspecter@lemm.ee
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        48 months ago

        I’m someone that likes to tinker and be on the bleeding edge, but I agree, LTS makes sense on hardware that is more than 6 months old or so.

      • @uranibaba@lemmy.world
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        28 months ago

        Yeah, same reason I use LTS. Latest features are nice and all but I want a stable system for my everyday life.

      • @tomten@lemmy.world
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        18 months ago

        LTS is no guarantee that there wont be bugs, 6.1 recently had a bug with NFS where it corrupted files.

        • @entropicdrift
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          18 months ago

          I didn’t say it was?

          You do get fewer bugs, though, and equally frequent hotfixes

            • @entropicdrift
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              18 months ago

              Safety is a sliding scale. You’re certainly safer than bleeding edge