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by nzentzis 2083 days ago
This doesn't apply if you want to run CUDA-dependent software. I've generally gone for Nvidia for my personal machine since Torch has behaved oddly on AMD cards in the past.

It's true that Nvidia doesn't support Wayland properly, but that's not really an issue in my opinion. Wayland still has its own problems that mean switching from X11 isn't viable yet.
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bipson 2082 days ago
Although your argument is valid, are we talking about CUDA? Obviously CUDA is an NVIDIA thing under all platforms, right? I don't think anyone would buy AMD with the intention of running CUDA.

Regarding GPUs and how good they work under Linux, computing on GPUs is only a part of the discussion I would argue...

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posguy 2082 days ago
What issues have you had with Wayland? Switching to it has given me a tear free experience on both AMD & Intel laptops, besides that it performs similar to X11.
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morsch 2082 days ago
> tear free

> 5 or so years of tearing

I know what people are referring to, but a less geeky person might come away from this thinking people get very emotional about bad Linux graphics drivers.

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nzentzis 2082 days ago
My main problem with it is limited software support. Xmonad isn't available and as far as I can tell what support exists for screen recording and screenshots is half-baked at best. I haven't seen anywhere near enough problems with X11 to make switching window managers worth it, and the screen recording thing would be a massive pain to work around.
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