Thanks!

Too bad about the trade....

- Evan


On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM Peter King via talk <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/29/24 3:36 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> Although I really don't want to, I need to upgrade the graphics card on my
> main desktop.
> I currently have an AMD RX 6600 but some of the applications I want to
> work with, notably in AI and content creation, either don't work well on
> AMD cards or not at all.
>
> For decades I've stuck to AMD cards -- partly because of their better
> track record with Linux drivers, but also because of my affinity for ATI in
> Markham. Alas, though, I must get something from Team Green now. Leaning
> towards an RTX 3060 12GB, that should be enough for me.
>
> If I'd seen this a week earlier I would have proposed a trade -- I just
> took out an MSI GeForce RTX 2060 to replace it with an AMD RX 6600.
>
> I can't help with your main question, unfortunately, but I can tell you
> why I chucked my Nvida card, which is that there seems to be a nasty
> interaction bug between the nonproprietary nouveau drivers and the current
> iteration of mesa, which leads to all manner of complications, mostly in
> never coming out of suspend but sometimes even not booting the console.
> (In each case using ssh to get in to the computer found everything else
> running perfectly.)  This all happened under current Arch Linux.
>
> Most likely you aren't interested in the nouveau drivers.  I don't know
> how extensive the interactive bug with mesa is, but you might check that
> out before you take the leap.  I have never used the nvidia proprietary
> drivers so I have no views about whether they have problems.
>
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