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Switching from Nvidia to AMD (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by BeyondRuby@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently on EndeavourOS that i set up like a week ago and I'm using a 4070 currently, I'm really new to Linux I used mint for about two months and just swapped over to EndeavourOS, but I wanted to know the proper way to swap over to the AMD card some people are saying I need to remove the Nvidia drivers and the add AMDs drivers then swap or others are saying just drop it in and then last is I have to reinstall the os, what is the proper way to do my upgrade? Thanks in advance sorry for the formatting

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[–] BeyondRuby@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sounds like you've had a bad experience or something, I enjoy tinkering and running my games while maintaining my performance and privacy. I've had no issues, telling someone to get a console is a ridiculous statement nowadays there's no reason to. I also just realized what community I'm in so I'm going to assume you are responding this way because I chose endeavour instead of arch directly lol

[+] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] BeyondRuby@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't understand the points you are trying to make, like this started from you telling people not to swap because of a bad upgrade choice. I also now see you are one of the few that have been using Linux for so long you think anyone new to it shouldn't be here. You are part of the problem why Linux is so small in percentage. I never claimed it was good for gaming or that was my reason for switching. Nor did I ask anyone to hold my hand the whole way. I did my research and couldn't decide as I'm still new so I asked for advice. You feel so smart since you've been using Linux for 30 years. Yeah I game so I probably wouldn't if I couldn't play my games obviously what a solid argument lol. But your wasting your breathe on me. I'm a tech and privacy enthusiast I finally want to learn just like many other let us learn don't discourage us. If it makes you feel better while I use flatpaks I do think it is stupid that people are going for a windows experience on Linux, in that case just use windows.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There's a grain of truth in what OP is saying though. If you used any GPU Compute apps, the driver switch is going to be much more involved, as you have to migrate them all and probably get rocm working on your system. Honestly you need lots of manual fixes too.

If you don't, no worries about that.