Hi On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:27:47 +0200 Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> wrote:
Am Freitag, 16. Oktober 2020, 11:40:53 CEST schrieb Thomas Zimmermann:
Hi
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:29:43 +0200 Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> wrote:
All those kids, that came to me this year to buy/build a PC (I do this from time to time for pedagogical reasons) have a list in their hands with must
have equipment, and guess what's *always* on position Nr. 1: NVIDIA GTX 20{70,80,90}
depending on their budget and granted, they never want to discuss the manufacturer part of the story. About 30% get an openSUSE TW installation
Out of interest: do they have a rational argument why it's got to be Nvidia?
Not a rational one. But if they spend 300..500 Euros for their GPU, they tend to not risk *something*. That's, what they learned from us old fart
Actually, playing safe if you only have your pocket money to spend sounds like a fairly rational choice to me. At least, I wouldn't blame them...
Counter question:
If you were *liable* for somebody else's investment and granted, you're *not* *a* *bank*, would *you* take such a risk yourself? (eg. a GPU replacement from AMD to NVIDIA due to driver issues in game XY, FPS abysmally low, ..)
I guess not. Rarely someone asks me what GPU to buy. I tend to recommend the cheapest non-Nvidia, or a good AMD-one for games. For my modest needs, I've been buying Intel or AMD for ~15yrs and never looked back. And I tend to recommend against Nvidia specifically because of the Linux driver situation. Best regards Thomas
Cheers, Pete
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