I heard online that 50 series is getting better prices so i considering upgrading to 5080 super when that release if prices is really better.
The question then is how quick does new gpu’s usually get drivers that work for gaming?
For nVidia day one with the proprietary driver. However it depends on your distribution of choice how quick they update the distro package.
Usually rolling releases are pretty quick here. eg. Tumbleweed, Kalpa, Aeon, Arch Linux, Manjaro, CachyOS pick one. Also The likes of semi-rolling releases such as Fedora, Bazzite, Nobara are pretty quick here to.
However on point-releases eg. Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu […], Debian, ZorinOS etc. you may miss out on recent drivers for longer periods of time.
While nVidia provides a universal driver installer it is usually not considered good practice to use that but instead use distro maintained driver packages.
No matter what distro i am using. I am asking if they have drivers available for Linux day one also for gaming. Reason i am asking is i recently moved from windows to Linux. On windows you would expect gaming drivers day one but would not surprise if not the same on Linux considering the alleged low market share.
So expecting some delays, but wanting to know how much delay that generally is before i purchase something new. Not gonna buy something that wont work basically-
I can only repeated what I already said:
NVIDIA provides their own generic driver installer for Linux and UNIX day one for any new GPU.
However this installer is not recommended to be used on most Linux distributions. Therefore you usually install the driver from your distributions package sources. However it does depend on the distribution of choice how much behind they are here.
Therefore point-releases usually lack behind by several releases, rolling releases don’t.
Ok understood, distro itself wouldn’t matter as i could just switch temporary if that was needed for specific driver.
Then it seems at least a functional driver, maybe not so great for games but should for most part fuction. Think i have to see anyway but at least there will be some sort of drivers when i buy.
Thank you for your response’s and help.
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