Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can’t fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.

  • wfh@piefed.zipOPEnglish
    919·
    3 days ago

    I’m not being cheeky. This is my actual experience as of this morning. I’m still fucking angry.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      223·
      3 days ago

      I assume you switched out your GPU for one of the same chip manufacturer? (AMD>AMD or NVIDIA>NVIDIA)
      Then the linux scenario would very realistic, otherwise very much not.

      • SilverCode@lemmy.mlEnglish
        91·
        2 days ago

        I switched from Nvidia to AMD with no issue. It probably wouldn’t be as easy the other way around though.

        • PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          Did this yesterday, checked the CachyOS wiki beforehand, ran the command it says to remove the Nvidia stuff, command apparently does nothing. Shut down, swap cards out. Started up, Cachy had a fit and wouldn’t boot. Dropped into tty, manually removed all Nvidia packages, reinstalled AMD equivalents, rebooted and then it worked.

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah it also depends on how you installed the drivers. Some methods are super easy to uninstall but others are catastrophically complicated.

          • SilverCode@lemmy.mlEnglish
            8·
            2 days ago

            I never bothered to remove the Nvidia drivers. The kernel won’t load the kernel module if it doesn’t detect the card, and the gl/vk loaders correctly load the right implementations for the new card, so i never saw a need to remove them other than an extra download and dkms step when I do an update.

    • wia@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

      You are being slightly disingenuous though.

      Like the Linux side is just steps, while the windows side had needless commentary that make the list longer.

      I’m with you 96% though. Upgrading a GPU on Windows is a freaking nightmare. DDU being required is honestly insane.

      On Linux it was painless. Though I do have my share of Linux problems.

    • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
      64·
      2 days ago

      Sorry, the installer you used played ads while you waited? Like, with audio? Where the fuck did you find that thing? Scrolling text for AMD’s other products, sure, but I’ve never downloaded anything so egregious from AMD’s website