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Having RX 580 at work and it's way nicer with Linux compared to whatever NVIDIA offers. The 6900 XT will definitely replace my 2080Ti.

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Yeah, the nvidia driver support on Linux was so bad that I rage quit Linux and bought a Spanish windows 8 (I was in Latin America at the time) at a ridiculous price after days of troubleshooting a black screen on boot.

AMD had been rock solid for me with Linux ever since I realized that was the issue and bought an AMD card. I'll never go back to nvidia until they make Linux drivers a priority.

I still have the Spanish windows that I use for games with my very old nvidia graphics card. It's time to retire that system soon.

I moved from Nvidia to AMD because of driver issues in linux. Definitely had less issues with AMD. I’ll be replacing the 5700xt with 6800xt.

Ended up with the last few weeks of December off last year and sat down with the mission of getting my Centos 8 box to work with steam. The RX580 worked lovely for VIM, but... went on a grand adventure to get their drivers working. Oh what a pain. Took me, with my limited knowledge most of that time to sort out the potion miscibility roles between steam, centos, and amd.

About January, they released a set of updates where all the planets aligned. Went from a grand adventure to a handful of commands. The rest of this year has continued to be a non-event for updates. I'll be looking at one of the ATI cards as lord knows I've failed to find any 3080s, of any make, in stock since launch.

Did you use their closed source drivers or the ones provided in the kernel? I've been just using Arch Linux and the mainline kernel with the OSS AMD drivers, and everything's super good and solid since last year when I got the workstation.

Closed source. At that point in time I was trying to get Steam up and running on my Linux box to play some games which needed something more than stock. I'd only used the open source drivers for coding/work, which were lovely. A buddy had gifted me a stack of RX580s when he exited bitcoin mining - so I had a way better video card than I needed for IntelliJ/GoLand/VIM. Not saying it was the right rabbit hole, but my god that was an adventure getting 19.30 closed source drivers to work on a Centos 8 Streams box. Ended up spending much of December compiling kernels and banging a dead chicken on my monitor... rather than the original mission of playing Oxygen Not Included.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CentOS/comments/eplicu/steam_on_cen...

Kernel 5.9 seems to have finally made the 5700XT stable for me. Since 5.6 the crashes have gotten less frequent per release, but I haven't had one in almost two weeks since this latest kernel.

Absolutely.

And NVIDIA's blob driver doesn't work AT ALL on current kernels ATM.

Apparently, it's going to take months this time around.

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