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I have no interest in moving to AMD for video cards right now- the network effect of NVIDIA is just too high, and their peak performance is insane. I also haven't noticed any major issues with nvidia drivers, unless you mean specifically running Windows games on Linux machines with nvidia cards, where I have zero experience.

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Network effect for graphics cards? Literally what? Your friends don’t care what GPU you run my guy and there is not much benefit of having brand loyalty to a company like Nvidia that gives absolutely zero fucks about people that aren’t their enterprise customers buying GPUs by the thousands. If there’s any “network effect” for gaming GPUs on Linux it’s in favor of AMD because of the immense amount of work Valve has been putting in to make it work well for their steam* hardware.

Nvidia’s drivers are trash for gaming on Linux and the majority of your “compatibility and framerate issues” are because you’re using a sub-par product for the job.

I am also an enterprise customer that buys GPUs by the thousands, you can see a bit more about my work here: https://www.gene.com/media/press-releases/15010/2023-11-21/g... and https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/roche-ai-factories-omniverse/ and have worked with nvidia since the mid-2000s on high performance computing for scientific research (in addition to having nvidia graphics cards since the Riva TNT, running both Windows and Linux). So having a blackwell graphics card I can evalute with linux and windows, both for ML training, inference, and gaming, is a huge network effect.

We’re talking about your gaming PC here. Nobody is forcing you to ONLY buy Nvidia graphics for your personal gaming rig when you ALSO have a purpose built AI rig. Nvidia just removed “gaming” as a segment from their financial reports. They give zero fucks. This absurd blind loyalty serves no purpose.

> Nvidia that gives absolutely zero fucks about people that aren’t their enterprise customers buying GPUs by the thousands.

for the context, nvidia gives zero fucks about people who are buying their GPUs by thousands as well.

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