Next time I'm going AMD anyway. Since EVGA is done I don't really have a reason to stick. I've used AMD on Linux before with the same system and I had no issues besides video playback while playing a game was choppy, but it did the same thing on Windows.
Your problem is using Debian, Debian is for stability, its the Windows XP of Linux. For 3080, you'd need to use the nvidia proprietery drivers. Doing a search yields:
I'm still of the belief that my current rig is the last I'll build. I'm sure AMD is going to follow nvidia's joke of a pricing scheme, and Intel's drivers are a joke.
I will give this a shot. I appreciate the info and will update on how it turned out.
Yeah I've been reading that the new AMD cards are pretty expensive, but even the Nvidia ones are more then normal. Correct me if wrong.
The Nvidia "open source" proprietary drivers were recently released. Don't use that though. It's just the kernel that's open rest is proprietary and it doesn't work.
Intel's Linux support is actually top tier, i915 works very well out of the box without needing to install proprietary drivers. Drivers that you will need to rebuild EVERYTIME you update your kernel. God help you if you are using old hardware on a new kernel or vice versa like nvidia.
Ironically, it doesn't work on my 3090 card, something about bad firmware. Driver loads and runs, but X doesn't want to start.
It's funny that NVIDIA was the first GPU manufacturer to offer Linux support and now they've really shanked it badly.
Well I installed it. The newest version of the free drivers fucks up my display, but thanks to being able to logon without a window manager, I changed the repo to non-free, installed the drivers, and it was fine. Best part? I can run at 144Hz. Once again, I feel like a mega retard. Thank you so much anon.
I really wish they would sort out clipboard issues on Linux. Keyboard copy/paste and right click copy/paste still don't point to the same thing (how hard is it to share a pointer between them? Come on now) and I wish it did.
Not only for their GPUs, intel's support for it's hardware in Linux is generally top tier except some really weird and far-in-between specifics. AMD is actually kinda dragging feet and uncooperative on many things and while intel is a shady af company in general, whoever engineers they send off to Linuxland do genuinely good work.
You basically get two clipboards in X. PRIMARY which lets you insert whatever text you have highlighted in a program with middle mouse click and the usual copy&paste secondary clipboard you know from Windows and friends. The difference is that PRIMARY actually doesn't get "buffered" in the server, the server basically just tells the two programs to communicate whatever selection data amongst each other. That's also why you can't paste with middle click if you closed the program/otherwise removed the selection.
The closest thing that AMD has to EVGA is Sapphire, XFX is pretty good as well
A sentence I never thought I'd read.
My one friend LOVES Awesome. I've never gotten really into the whole super lightweight window manager deal.
