Hallo, I would like to spend some hours on a normal game without having to reboot into Windows. I have a Steam account and some Linux games are available (at least some from Valve).
But the video card I have is not ok. It's a Nvidia Geforce 750Ti (passive cooling), it works quite well with the Nouveau drivers but there are too many glitches in 3D games, some are basically not playable. I remember that Nvidia drivers (non-free) have been a lot better but I cannot make them work with current Debian Unstable, even if I install the latest packages from Debian Experimental, the drivers simply don't compile with latest kernels. This makes me think, is AMD a better alternative? I could by one, but only if the driver support situation is acceptable. And I am not sure WRT recent developments. There is the amdgpu driver in Sid but the list of supported models includes only R9-280 or 290 stuff which is two years old. And no such card on the market seems to support semi-passive cooling. And then, there are "AMDGPU PRO" drivers on the AMD page, which seem to be the successor of the non-free fglrx driver. But the packages there are only made for Ubuntu. I really don't want to troll but this makes me wonder... am I missing something? Or does AMD give a s...t about users unless they are running the latest Ubuntu LTS and nothing else? And I don't like this situation. NVidia drivers basically broken, AMD drivers basically broken, or you can buy some 3 year old hardware for insane prices, or what else can a normal gamer do? Regards, Eduard.
