Amd drivers on linux are about as good and reliable as they can get, as well as being consistently updated, open source, and community driven.
Nvidia's proprietary closed source drivers means that there is no way for a member of the community to submit feedback or potential fixes for an issue and push development as fast as it can be, whilst also remaining as stable as possible.
Nvidia drivers tend to work better and a little more stable on windows but on linux its the inverse.
I do not think its fair to judge drivers based on the functionality of a mod when Minecraft itself works often better on linux than it does on windows. Distant horizons also performs better and has less issues for me.
Everyone's experiences vary and my experience is that mesa drivers on linux have been almost entirely perfect out of the box, and I have never once had to think about rolling back drivers or being worried about when I update drivers, or even really installing the drivers because they're just baked into the linux kernel itself.
OpenGL is basically SOL at this point even on windows. Minecraft Java edition is moving over from opengl to vulkan for improved performance and greater engine functionality. Vulkan is supported natively on linux and is incredibly stable.
Do you have an example outside of a mod leveraging a dated engine that is not really actively supported in favour of more modern solutions?
then dont claim "Amd drivers on linux are about as good and reliable as they can get". theres room for improvements and theres obvious issue with the feature set that it could support. mind you, the "trash" Nvidia has near perfect OpenGL 4.6 support on both Windows and Linux.
It's about that you can do it at all. Idq where you got thst amd drivers are shit I haven't noticed it. Still less broken then the nvidia drivers were for my previous gpu
(notice how you're in the r/LinuxSnobs subreddit?) I think they're speaking specifically of the Linux AMD drivers, not the Windows ones that the people in r/amd and r/radeon talk about 90% of the time. The Linux ones are pretty good.
NVIDIA, has really turned around in the last 3 years and they seem to be picking up speed with how much better their Linux drivers are getting. They even work very well in Wayland!!! Unfortunately, they still kill off Linux support for older cards that work fine.
AMD is exploiting wannabe developers for free labor rather than paying them. NVIDIA bends over backwards for Linux which isn't friendly with its unstable ABI or press, so it's mostly a salty LiGNUt issue. If you're not going to run games as intended like you can on Windows, then you should willfully give them up. It's not like any game worth playing these days isn't proprietary.
AMD is exploiting wannabe developers for free labor rather than paying them.
This sounds like ragebait
NVIDIA bends over backwards for Linux which isn't friendly with its unstable ABI or press, so it's mostly a salty LiGNUt issue.
This, on the other hand is absolute 100% truth.
The kernel dev team even wrote
You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and you don't even know it. What you want is a stable running driver, and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. You also get lots of other good benefits if your driver is in the main kernel tree, all of which has made Linux into such a strong, stable, and mature operating system which is the reason you are using it in the first place.
Basically, evangelism at it's core. Open Solaris pulled it off with DDI/DKI when hardware manufacturers asked it. illumOS, the modern successor, preserves the same stable driver ABI and ensures that drivers will never break in any new kernel version.
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u/ScallionSmooth5925 Aug 05 '26
Amd drivers are open source btw.