This update, among other things, adds support for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, which should bring significant performance boost to Nvidia cards, once it’s properly implemented.

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    4 days ago

    I’d recommend avoiding NVidia in general. Their drivers are intensely hit or miss. Any time anything has gone wrong with my PC, NVidia and their shitty drivers have been the culprit.

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      Any time anything has gone wrong with my PC, NVidia and their shitty drivers have been the culprit.

      This seems unlikely. You’ve never had a hard drive failure, bad RAM, missing dependencies, malware or bugs in any other software except NVIDIA?

      You must be one heck of a statistical outlier.

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        3 days ago

        In the past two years? Nope, entirely NVidia. There’s been a bunch of problems, absolutely, but it’s always been NVidia’s garbage drivers at the core of it.

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          In the past two years? Nope, entirely NVidia.

          2 years without a non-video card related problem? I don’t think I go 2 weeks without some issue or another (Arch life).

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            I’ve gone 4 years on my Ubuntu laptop (DELL XPS-13) without any serious problems.

            My one year old Lenovo Gaming laptop with an NVIDIA chip, however… Audio randomly stops working and I have to kick-start ALSA to get it going again - Until it just blows out audio entirely and I have to reboot. My only work-around is to use bluetooth audio.

            So yeah, NVIDIA has some responsibility here. I don’t have any other problems on the Lenovo (also Ubuntu) either. That said, I’ve had few problems with GenAI or Steam video games like Cyberpunk 2077 on NVIDIA (other than audio), so it isn’t all bad.

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            Literally haven’t had a single problem on arch that was due to arch in like 6 years.

            Nvidia has caused more issues then arch has.

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              Literally haven’t had a single problem on arch that was due to arch in like 6 years.

              Are you guys LLMs? This is English but it doesn’t seem to have any correlation to actual reality.

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                What are you doing that you have constant problems with Linux? What distro, what hardware? I’ve been using Linux since Slackware decades ago and it’s been years since I had to babysit it.

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            How? I’m running Tumbleweed on my desktop which is supposedly more stable than Arch, but I’ve had no problems with Arch on my laptop. Granted I’ve only had that for four months or so.