> This is repeated often, but I have had very good support from Nvidia on Linux over the years.
They have been improving because getting CUDA running on the platform in datacenters required some level of cooperation. They eventually realized this had to happen regardless for AI in the datacenter and so eventually they got a kernel module starting to be added. It's not really there yet and it doesn't run the actual driver, but it gets a pathway to booting Nvidia with signed drivers among other things.
The end result is our support forums are still full of Nvidia users. Go to any support forum or Reddit related to Linux and view the comments and press CTRL+F for Nvidia. It's so common we have to just tag/bin these posts and move on because there are literally man years of time being wasted on this.
> AMD on the other hand gives lousy support.
I can open a bug right now on both GitHub and the LKMS directly with AMD engineers. When I have a question about ROCm I can ask them and get a quick response. These guys are in Reddit threads talking to ROCm users and giving them guidance on how to modify their consumer grade Radeon cards to use the datacenter grade drivers that aren't adapted to consumer facing cards yet.
The one thing we for sure agree on is that Intel doesn't have any of this BS. Their stuff just works and their pipeline for getting anything fixed is also well optimized.
I have been using the Nvidia driver for many years, had minimal problems and had great responses from Nvidia when I did report issues.
As for opening a bug on GitHub, there is a difference between them responding and them fixing things. I have seen many people report bugs without them fixing the issues. There is one prominent issue for parity between direct3d q2 and vulkan that was needed by emulators that they outright refused to fix:
They have been improving because getting CUDA running on the platform in datacenters required some level of cooperation. They eventually realized this had to happen regardless for AI in the datacenter and so eventually they got a kernel module starting to be added. It's not really there yet and it doesn't run the actual driver, but it gets a pathway to booting Nvidia with signed drivers among other things.
The end result is our support forums are still full of Nvidia users. Go to any support forum or Reddit related to Linux and view the comments and press CTRL+F for Nvidia. It's so common we have to just tag/bin these posts and move on because there are literally man years of time being wasted on this.
> AMD on the other hand gives lousy support.
I can open a bug right now on both GitHub and the LKMS directly with AMD engineers. When I have a question about ROCm I can ask them and get a quick response. These guys are in Reddit threads talking to ROCm users and giving them guidance on how to modify their consumer grade Radeon cards to use the datacenter grade drivers that aren't adapted to consumer facing cards yet.
The one thing we for sure agree on is that Intel doesn't have any of this BS. Their stuff just works and their pipeline for getting anything fixed is also well optimized.