Steam's February Survey: AMD CPUs & GPUs Continue To Dominate For Linux Gamers

Is steam deck AMD? That would make a lot of sense.

That makes sense. I've done both team green and red on linux now, Ubuntu and PopOS. My personal thoughts:

NVidia for compute, hands down, it wins. Any AI or compute, you can't compare. But the drivers are worse and a pain to install, and conflicting versions left and right and it's just hell. PopOS saved me by having all of that set up for me.

AMD GPU drivers are still not great if you're running a non "official" distro, but I eventually got it to work. AMD definitely feels more "stable" over NVidia. Way less fiddling with Steam and games too, most seem to "just work" compared to fiddling with env variables with NVidia.

Pros and cons. Personally, I'm leaning Team Red right now. They're really bringing it. I don't see any reason to spend more on an nvidia card unless you are doing massive compute loads.

Unless you want hdmi 2.1 apparently

That's literally because of steamdeck my guy

I played on Linux with NVidia for a few years. Was overall okay-ish but I definitely had issues. Just switched to a 7600XT and it's like putting on glasses when I didn't know I had poor vision. Everything just works, wayland is seamless and smooth in a way X11 just never was, DX12 games run faster than they did on Windows.

Sounds about right, I had nothing but bad experiences with Nvidia on Linux.

My experiences with AMD are far from perfect and I still have some bizarre issues nobody else has , but it was still a pretty big improvement.

Just switched out my nvidia gpu for a amd gpu, soon to be apart of the numbers 🙌

Lots of new Chinese users? Is that due to the trade war? From what I understand they're trying to get rid of Windows?

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