Proprietary Drivers vs Open Source | nVidia vs AMD

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1. Correction: you can add a non-free repository to your package manager to automatically update your proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

2. This video is old, but seems like still valid

3. Meanwhile I'm stuck here with no drivers since Nvidia peaced out on older stuff

4. I just bought RX 580 8GB for $62 on used market and I'm really happy with the performance so far, I played older titles like Metro series, Half life 2, BioShock, and etc which still runs smoothly even on 4K for some games, the best thing is I don't need to install any driver whatsoever, it's just works 😁

5. Hi. I've got a new pc the latest amd card and installed linux mint. Before, I always had nvidia on LM without problems (>10y). Took some time to figure out why my graphics card was not installed/detected. First thing: I had to switch to a much newer kernel than the one that LM came with. Then, it still wasn't perfect, but it got a lot better after installing the amd prop drivers (included turning of my pc, shut off the power and push the power-on button for 30 secs and restarting; after that everything went fine). Still miss the nvidia gui program to tweak it, but radeontop now shows it's running/working and everything seems okaynow. My point : amd still seems to be for Linux/computer geeks if you buy some of their latest (most expensive) products.

6. got an old HP laptop with nivida k3000m, Debian 12 gave a some crap called neauvuo-someting(retart made this with retard-name), tried to install proper nvidia drivers, but Linux gave me the big middlefinger with all errors it could give me. So before I write of Debian 12 and Linux OS overall just like useless shit for smug assholes, I need to fucking get this to work

7. Hybrid systems with discreet AMD GPU always creates problems with Linux.

8. I'm a little late to the party because I have been on Linux exclusively for 15 years and I've always bought Nvidia cards…….until now. I just replaced my GTX 1070 TI with a Radeon RX 6950 XT. I tried to remove the nvidia drivers on my Debian 12 install but I gave up and did a fresh install just to start clean. I installed steam and everything just works just like you said. This is really quite nice so far. No idea what Nvidia is thinking with their 40 series cards and 8GB of VRAM and jacked up prices. When I get my card paid off here in a few months I plan on replacing my Gsync monitor and I'm never going back to Nvidia. They really do suck for open source stuff and they are making garbage cards now that nobody wants. I'm a little curious if plymouth boot themes work properly with AMD graphics. I'll have to give that a shot tomorrow. I do have a freesync 1080p ultrawide monitor in my closet but it only has like 60hz refresh and HDMI only but I might have to get that back out and give it a whirl tomorrow as well. But yeah my next PC build is going to be 100% AMD all the way.

9. I also preferred AMD for linux. but now the nvidia beta driver 535 can do 60hz at 8k, which amd can not.

10. I've definitely had a better experience on Linux with Radeon cards. I couldn't get Wayland to work properly with my 1080Ti. Flawless on my 6900XT.

11. I am running a AMD 2500u laptop with integrated Vega 8 graphics I've installed "amdgpu" drivers, but I'm facing some performance issues on video playback on YouTube. CPU usage jumps up to 60-70%. It never happened in windows, looks like it isn't using hardware acceleration for decoding videos. I don't play games, so haven't checked out gaming performance.
    Should I switch to AMD GPU Pro?

12. vs means versus and should be pronounced accordingly

13. Not exactly you can use the Gnome software app. The only thing is that you need to sign the driver if you are using secure boot

14. Is AMD cards are better for machine learning (and not for gaming) than Nvidia?

15. can you make a video on machine learning with AMD graphics card

16. hey my ubuntu gnome 20.04 is very slow..i would like to upgrade my drivers to nvidia or amd because right now it is ASPEED or LLVM im not sure but its one of the two…any help will be helpful thanks

17. I'm happy that I've decided to drop my GTX 1050Ti and replace it with a RX 6600. Basically, it was a matter of drivers that led me to do this. Simply, by upgrading from Kubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS, my GPU stopped working properly with the official drivers. However, after changing to AMD, the drivers weren't there, and after installing them my computer was constantly freezing and crashing. After installing Kununtu from scratch, my new GPU never failed on me again. I'm glad I've decided to wait before RMA a card that would be good.

18. How would Intel's integrated gpu fare compared to AMD or NVIDIA in Linux?

19. I'm still fairly new to Linux but have an ok grasp on it I would say. I know how to use the terminal and have installed the mesa drivers but I was wondering

    I'm on Linux mint 20.3 with the KDE desktop environment
    intel core i3 10100
    AMD radeon RX 6600 XT

    is there a GUI settings menu for AMD GPUs on Linux? Most games work just fine for me but for example I'm playing stray with occasional dips in frame rate which is manageable but obviously not having dips in FPS is best. Meanwhile games like NFS heat are playable but I get terrible FPS (sometimes below 20) I was wondering if maybe I can mess with some of the GPU settings or if I'm just gonna have to deal with some games just not being as playable as I want them to be. I still dualboot with windows 10 so it's not a big issue since these games run great on windows.

20. helo Sir. how to install nvidia geforce GT 755M on lenovo ideapad y410P using fedora design 36? It has 2 vga.. internal VGA (intel HD) & nvidia geforce GT 755M.

    I've tried many ways but it always failed

21. I installed DaVinci Resolve 17 (and 18) in Ubuntu 20.04, on a computer with an AMD Gpu, and the program opened long enough to tell me it couldn’t find a supported Gpu mode. I don’t think Blackmagic cares, or they would create a proprietary installer for at least one Linux distro –

22. Proprietary Drivers is bad ? Are u kidding ? Have u seen the AMD drivers or you where watching something else at the same time ? NVIDIA drivers where the best and they are still the best

23. It is kinda strange, that AMD is more open for open source and Linux, but many Linux guys still using nVidia GPUs.
    Also, it is also strange, that AMD themselves have not yet created Adrenaline (and other utilities) to control the GPU. Thankfully we have community ^^
    Thanks for the video, Chris!

24. AMD Drivers "Built-In" claim sucks!!! That should say AMD Drivers "for Newer" Video cards are "Built-In". Those "Built-In" drivers do nothing for the GCN video cards and the Linux community sucks at helping these people get these GCN cards to work with Vulkan and/or OpenCL. There was some help when the Linux systems were using Grub, but when systemd is used, it is horrible.

25. NVIDIA Linux drivers are high quality. If you can get past the ideological hurdle of them not being open source, the technical hurdles aren't great. Distros package them in an easy to install manner, even Debian. Distributions tend to recommend against getting the binaries direct from NVIDIA (the .run file) because it makes it harder to upgrade them, can make kernel upgrades harder, you can run into conflicts, etc. You're doing it on hard mode if you do it that way. Honestly, apart from not being open source NVIDIA Linux drivers have been great and just work.

26. nvidia drivers for majaro are bricking manjaro systems after the last update.

27. I got a optiplex 5040 SFF and ordered a radeon r5 2GB card that will fit that should be coming today. This answers my question as I know very little about the hardware end and will be getting a vanilla Arch install. This is on top of my SSD for root/grub and HDD for swap/home/var setup.

    Not as scary as I thought it would be.

28. 5:48

29. Mesa or vesa for r5 3400g? I want to try gaming and all guides say i should install mesa but what config Manjaro shows vesa as option

30. Thanks for the info, please make an updated video with Intel as well

31. Interesting

32. I just install my Nvidia drivers from command line in manjaro:

    sudo pacman -S –needed nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader

33. Everytime I have used nvidia cards I have had nothing but issues with nvidia cards, I have had less issues when amd launched their first gen APU's than with any nvidia card. The card I have now is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Gaming X 6GB OC Twin Frozr7 card which has a fan that can and will stop if temps are low, this inside of linux by default is disabled. Meaning the fans will NEVER turn on, this card attempts to kill itself on using linux. You have to download the nvidia drivers, install them, modify some value to turn fans on always and it presents a void warenty if used message yes/no and if you check yes it some how voids your warenty on a card that would otherwise kill itself, and then use GreenwithEnvy's fan controller to turn down the fan speed. If greenwithenvy isn't running your card will eventually kill itself. This is some heavy oversight either on MSI's end or nvidia's. But out of the people I know that have basically the same thing in the AMD chips they do not have this issue.

34. thanks 4 the video.

35. I got an issue with xorg freezing under "heavy" load and the x server needs to be restarted. I have a geforce 210 and the driver is nvidia 340, but no matter what it seems like it's not fixable. I am quite certain that it's just simply a driver problem.

36. Thank you for that! Before installing the newest Nvidia drivers, is there a nice easy way to remove all pre-existing drivers? Thank you in advance!

37. I currently have all nvidia cards…but it seems lately the nvidia drivers have some weird issues creeping up like the desktop corruption coming out of suspend or compositing performance issues (while everything else including gaming is fine). This is the first time in over a decade I have had deal breaking issues out of the box that require more time to research and fix than I’d prefer to put into it. I’m older now with less time on my hands and there is a reason I don’t use Debian or Slackware anymore and use things like kubuntu or mint. I do like the nvidia control panel that comes with their proprietary driver, does amds open source driver have anything comparable? It’s not a deal breaker for me, but it would be nice. My card is getting older and I was considering upgrading and thinking about giving AMD a try for the first time since my old ATi 9700 pro if or when the gpu price bubble pops.

38. My RTX 2700 still does not work with the newest kernel. I played Doom Eternal & The Witcher 3 last year and now it has kernel crash after kernel crash. It really sucks. Just get AMD. The last thing I can do is to check if I can use an old kernel and maybe my computer will not freeze this time.

39. Will you make an updated video on how to get Nvidia drivers fro new Linux users

40. i'm using popo's 76 how do i ENABLE COOL BITS

41. I have a Amd Vega 8 + Rx560x setup in my laptop.. in windows i can just switch them whenever i want.. is that possible in linux too??

    I really want to go all in into linux, no dual boot. That is the only thing that's stopping me

42. what about intel drivers?
    ?

43. Its possible to use Crossfire? I have two old graphics that in windows i can use both to get 4 gb DDR5 video memory but in linux i only can use one card so i only can use 2 gb… and some games require a lot of ram.

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