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Man, I'm glad I snuck a 1080ti purchase in a few years ago when BTC was crashing hard. Of course, being Nvidia means it'll suck if I have to transition to a Linux Desktop before the next cryptoshit market crash, but if it takes that long then they've probably managed to kill of high-end PC gaming along with the environment and I'll have bigger problems.

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Ethereum price crashing is what let you buy it. You might thinking the wrong decade but then the 1080ti didn't exist, and neither did Ethereum.

Looks like I bought it in June of 2018, and BTC was ~$6k, which was $7k down from its previous high in December of 2017. It would drop another $3k by January of 2019.

At least, that's what the first graph I found said.

Nobody has used GPUs for mining bitcoin in nearly 10 years, my point was telling you what they were using them for

BTC and ETH are closely correlated price-wise.

And all crypto assets at the time. People wouldn’t be clamoring for GPUs if Ethereum didnt exist and also capture so much of the market. Its the only proof of work blockchain that people pay so much to use that it frequently exceeds the block subsidy.

so Bitcoin crashing, without Ethereum existing, wouldn't mean anything. thats how I separate the two without it seeming pedantic to me.

NVIDIA is finally opening up to Linux and working on better support in their proprietary drivers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-4...

The latest Nvidia drivers have been working mostly perfectly with my modest 1060 under Fedora 35. Some hiccups resuming from sleep, but only rarely.

I started using Nvidia cards with Linux about two years ago and haven't had a single issue so far. It has always been Ubuntu, so that might be part of it, but I get the impression that Nvidia's beef with Linux isn't an issue anymore.

I have one machine using AMD and another using Nvidia. The only quirk with the Nvidia drivers, from my perspective, is having to install them separately under most distributions while AMD graphics just work. Even then, there is a lot less hassle to using Nvidia drivers under Linux than either vendor's drivers under Windows.

(I recognize that there have been issues with Wayland support in the past, it creates issues for some developers, and support for modern Nvidia cards on most other operating systems is non-existent. There are likely other issues, but it seems like most of the issues would affect a small number of people.)

For general desktop use, it's mostly fine. However, for gaming I noticed way better performance and no more graphical glitches after switching from a GTX 1060 to an RX 570 (a worse card on Windows, especially OpenGL). Gnome seems to handle Nvidia better than KDE too.

fwiw I've used nvidia drivers through DKMS for a long time and never really had any issues with it.

I'm afraid it isn't worth much, considering how many times a Linux Desktop user has told me "I haven't really had any problems with it" about something that ended up giving me no end of problems.

The problems of an even more infinite configuration space than what Windows offers...

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