And as far as CUDA…just: pacman -Q | grep cuda to verify that CUDA is removed.
Steam works just fine…see my comment above. I experimented with my “backup” install to check everything before I committed this to my daily install…
The daily has been running:
[dean@asus-z690 Desktop]$ stat / | grep Birth
Birth: 2021-09-17 20:32:07.000000000 -0700
Well, I’d love to have a shinly new Apple smartphone that is easy to repair, has a replaceable battery and a headphone jack and runs a completely FOSS operating system.
I’d also love to have a girlfriend who isn’t a secret police agent just pretending she likes me in order to catch me having regime-unapproved thoughts…
The point is: you have to have realistic desires, otherwise you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment. The sad truth is this: NoVidea is not friendly to Linux, and if you use the GNU operating system with Linux, you’re just going to have a better experience with AMD hardware. @eznix is right on this.
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How many secret police agents have you dated? 
It’s been this way before with new Kernels. Nvidia needs time to fix it and have done so far. Meanwhile you could use the LTS kernel like several have suggested. I wanted to make my life easier on a rolling distro so I switched to AMD and have been happy but for some that’s not a choice.
Yeah, I will install the LTS Kernel for now and will see what happens in the next couple of months. Long-term I will switch completely to AMD.
I will switch to Windows, if there will be no other options. I did not use Windows for 10+ years, but I’ve heard it’s usable now, with WSL2 (Linux on Windows) and Windows Package Manager. Not sure if it is possible to use i3 as a window manager tho. AMD GPU’s are problematic for AI related stuff, AFAIK due to CUDA being Nvidia proprietary standard. OS is a tool, not a religion, i’ll use whatever is working for my tasks.
10+ years without windows and than you joined this forum 3 hours ago to make this post as your first post. That is strange. Just saying.
Just so you know AMD will do AI just as good as nvidia if you have the right hardware.
The problem is not the hardware but the software. Nvidia has had CUDA working on the market since 2007, they spent years building strong software and making it the industry standard. ROCm is more recent, from 2016, and to this day, it has many bugs and is not worth dealing with seriously.
George Hotz (famous iPhone and PS3 jailbreak hacker), said he will work on it. But he regretted saying it a week later, because of AMD’s driver situation. He changed his mind again and went back to working on it, according to him, in a conversation with Lisa Su, he said he got more commitment from the company on this.
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No the problem is Nvidia! 
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