Finally, installed nvidia drivers on arch linux and I can watch videos without screen tearing.

It took me 8 months to figure out to download the main driver from their site instead of using the commands mentioned in arch wiki.

That wouldn't have happened with AMD.

I just installed the relevant /nvidia-\d{3}/ as per the table on the wiki and it worked fine. I do have a 750 though, an older card.

Mine is 710 and no matter what configuration I went with, there was always screen tearing

@chowdercake Oh, for that (and for decent colors) I had to change stuff in nvidia-settings, which then has to be configured to run after login to execute user settings.

I don't actually know what I changed but it was something in nvidia-settings.

@molaram Arch is not meant for ease of use to begin with, so that argument is stupid.

@molaram Arch is like that though, no one installs Arch unless they're prepared to spend 2 days upfront fixing critical issues and years to come resolving minor problems as they surface.

@molaram I've had Arch on my lappy for 2 years now and it was my first "diy" linux experience, and in the past one year I didn't have a single problem that wasn't both 1) unimportant enough that I would just live with it on windows and 2) fixable within an hour in a clean and stable way such that I actually understood how the fix works

Nvidia may have the better cards, but if i can't use it, they're a waste of silicon.

@molaram Dunno. Arch is probably for people who are too young to have been tinkering with Linux in the 1990s, but still want that kind of experience.

@molaram Nah, that should work immediately unless you have to install Arch on the mower first.

@molaram I hope you're aware of the enormous culture around
Old cars
Vinyl
Old cameras
Medieval cuisine (whose composition was usually defined by scarcity)
But there's a more universal approach too, in which you have to consider
Logic puzzles
Any and all sports provided there's a score to maximise
DIY projects that take more time than their price
All games, video, board and other, that involve scoring
Sad fictive stories

People just love challenge, and Arch is a very rewarding challenge because it can be really fast and stable if you get good at it.

Okay, some of those are obviously a stretch, but the point stands. Challenges aren't bad.

Exactly.
In my defense 😂, I had the system dual boot with another os so I rarely got time to work on driver issue.

@molaram just responding here is a real waste of time. Can't sleep so might as well. Yes Linux is a great desktop OS. One of the best of not the best. I have the best ease of use/productively and least problems with it.

After years and years only once it has let me down. A btrfs fail on ssd (known issue with specific kernel version). Nothing of serious consequence fortunately but had to rebuild the volumes. Lost all my snapshots. Corruption was in a lib not data.