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Nvidia SUCKS!
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Earlier this year I had a months long issue where my desktop image would freeze if I set its refresh rate higher than 120. I thought my GPU was breaking up, but I finally found a post on the Nvidia forum where someone else had the same issue and realized that it was because of the newest driver. It took months for Nvidia to fix that. Two months ago I just decided to switch to AMD and sold my Nvidia card and haven't had any issues with AMD so far.
To be fair AMD recently had a bug where the 6000 series GPUs would sit at 96 mhz unless you set your refresh rate below 100hz and that also took a couple months to be fixed. I was randomly getting 20fps in every game until I managed to find this gitlab issue. It started in kernel 6.4 and wasn't fixed until 6.6 so I had to play at 90hz on my 165hz monitor for that whole span.
This is why LTS kernels are a good thing. I used 6.1 that entire time and didn't even know the issue existed on my 6700XT
I'm someone that likes to tinker and be on the bleeding edge, but I agree, LTS makes sense on hardware that is more than 6 months old or so.
Yeah, same reason I use LTS. Latest features are nice and all but I want a stable system for my everyday life.
LTS is no guarantee that there wont be bugs, 6.1 recently had a bug with NFS where it corrupted files.
I didn't say it was?
You do get fewer bugs, though, and equally frequent hotfixes
No you didnt, I was just trying to say that you're not safe either way.
Safety is a sliding scale. You're certainly safer than bleeding edge
My 3080M won't go higher than 80W on Linux for the past 3 years that I have this laptop. I tried both the 535 and 545 drivers, still same issue. This is absolutely unacceptable.