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I mean, real talk, I used to be really big on Nvidia, but between the Nvidia architecture flaws in the switch and this nonsense, idk where I stand anymore.
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Life has been great ever since I ditched the bumblebee and blob driver nonsense and switched to Nouveau. Not an option for newer cards, sadly. This is why Nvidia *still* deserves the finger.
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I dunno if I take the same stance personally, as desktop-card-wise I still prefer them over AMD, but who knows if that's justified or how long it will last. Im fine with bumblebee tbh, integrated gfx is fine for just about anything I need to run.
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Sure, I use integrated graphics 99% of the time. Then when I needed the discrete it was *always* broken with bumblebee. AMD's Linux (and open source) support is so much better it's not even funny. Nvidia have been dragging their feet for over a decade now.
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The benchmarks etc that I've been running w/ bumblebee seem p decent tbh, is it really that bad?
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Now perf is okay-ish, but it's still fragile. Plus the blob driver breaks every second kernel/xorg update. And there are issues with card power management. It's all a duct taped hack to work around the fact that Nvidia supports none of the modern kernel technologies for this.
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With Nouveau everything just works. Proper PRIME support. Card auto sleep. VGA switcheroo. No need for daemons. No need for virtualGL. Proper xrandr. It just does Optimus the way it's supposed to work. Shows what Nvidia *could* do if they cared.
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