SoftestSapphic comments on NVIDIA GPU market domination hits almost 100%, AMD dwindles, Intel non-existent

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

I will never get another AMD card after my first one just sucked ass and didn't ever work right.

I wanted to try a Intel card but I wasn't even sure if I could find linux drivers for it because they weren't on the site for download and I couldn't find anything specifying if their newer cards even worked on linux.

So yeah, Nvidia is the only viable company for me to buy a graphics card from

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[–] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That kind of comment always feels a bit weird to me; are you basing AMD's worth as a GPU manufacturer on that one bad experience? It could just as well have been the same on an Nvidia chip, would you be pro-AMD in that case?

On the Intel part, I'm not up to date but historically Intel has been very good about developing drivers for Linux, and most of the time they are actually included in the kernel (hence no download necessary).

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago*

That kind of comment always feels a bit weird to me; are you basing AMD's worth as a GPU manufacturer on that one bad experience?

Absolutely, if a company I am trying for the first time gives me a bad experience, I will not go back. That's me giving them a chance, and AMD fucked up that chance and I couldn't even get a refund for like a $200 card. Choosing to try a different option resulted in me wasting time and money, and it pushed back my rig working for half a year until i could afford a working card again which really pissed me off.

I didn't know that about intel cards, I'll have to try one for my next upgrade if I can find on their site that they are supported.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What else would a consumer base things on except their own experiences? Not like it's a rare story either.

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[–] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I don't know, real world data maybe? Your one, or 2, or even 10 experiences are very insignificant statistically speaking. And of course it's not a rare story, people who talk online about a product are most usually people with a bad experience, complaining about it, it kinda introduces a bias that you have to ignore. So you go for things like failure rates, which you can find online.

By the way, it's almost never actually a fault from AMD or Nvidia, but the actual manufacturer of the card.

Edit: Not that I care about Internet points, but downvoting without a rebuttal is... Not very convincing

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A persons actual experience with a product isnt real world data? Fan boys for huge companies are so weird.

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[–] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Please read my entire comment, I also said your experience as one person is statistically insignificant. As in, you cannot rely on 1 bad experience considering the volume of GPUs sold. Anybody can be unlucky with a purchase and get a defective product, no matter how good the manufacturer is.

Also, please point out where I did any fanboyism. I did not take any side in my comments. Bad faith arguments are so weird.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Sure buddy, we're all idiots for not liking the product you simp for. Got it.

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[–] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Nice. Did not answer anything, did not point out where I'm simping, or being a fanboy. I'm not pro Nvidia, nor AMD, nor anything (rather than that I'm pretty anticonsumerism actually, not that you care).

You're being extremely transparent in your bad faith.

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