Fuck this shit. I'm buying an AMD card next time!

What distro do you use?

@Linux Arch. But my experience hasn't been much better with Debian*.

Linux dev pcs don't need good graphics, only use high performance cards for gaming, multimedia reasons ;)

@MrFox 14 I can't really afford a separate PC just for Linux + that's no excuse for NVIDIA to be asshole like that.

Yea, but you use it wrong ^^, its like using a chainsaw to cut the grass :)

Maybe create separate partitions and use chipgraphics for Linux

@MrFox I have 3 monitors and a TV. Not enough video outputs :D

What chip graphics?

For me, I would say that FOSS AMD drivers have been vastly better than Nvidia binary blob

@franga2000
wrong kiddo! Just installed nvidia quaddro k2000m without any problem

@Linux I read somewhere that quadros work better than GTX cards.
I've gotten it to work before, it just takes a while (a day or 2, depending on the amount of coffee I have).

@mikk150 new Intel processors have an intern graphic chilp

@MrFox hmm, ok but what about xeon?

Don't know, heard about some i5 and i7 chips but xenon.. maybe is Google your man ;)

Since when did AMD pass NVidia? AMD on Linux has always been a nightmare for me. FOSS was mentioned as well, but those drivers haven't been the best performance (albeit stable).

@mikk150 Xeons don't typically contain a GPU, I'm not sure that any do. Usually there's a really crappy built-in video on the mobo, but I wouldn't expect it to be good for much.

@neotelos amd foss drivers are magnificent, performance is great. I havent tried binary blob yet(no reason to)

@MrFox as a game dev I have to disagree

Debian stretch with some experimental worked fine for me (gtx 970)

But yeah it could be hard

@mikk150 I would do light gaming in Linux, including some Wine layers which can be really demanding of GPU features.

@twinflyer ok then, what's the truth?

@neotelos I would do heavy gaming on linux, if only more AAA titles support linux

@mikk150 PlayOnLinux, which uses Wine. When it's properly configured, many games work. Alternatively you can install a second GPU and enable PCI passthrough.

@MrFox when you're a cyber security guy and need to brute force stuff for pentesting, a GPU can be useful since it allows for much faster hashing operations (think Kali Linux etc)

I'm on windows but my AMD Radeon is pretty good

Well I had trouble with my AMD, I was hoping to get a NVidia next time hahaha. The worst part is that Linux basically has to proper support for dual graphics setup (the default nowadays on notebooks), every time the games I tried ended up using the the intel chip... In the end I'm still using a dualboot into windows when I want to play something, at least I'm not playing that much anymore :)

Something I need to be aware of? Last I checked Linux distros worked better with an Intel/nVidia combo than AMD. I was planning to switch from AMD for my next build actually.