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Is Linux gaming only workable if you have an AMD GPU? I was bummed to hear its not viable with a NVIDIA card
Edit: I'm referring to this recent Gamers Nexus video where they tested Bazzite. My SO says that the 1% lows are a deal breaker? I'm not very savvy with the specifics. I really wanted to install Bazzite but SO told me that its not viable yet.
Most NVidia cards work well. Nobody will recommend them because NVidia is known to pull the rug out of your perfectly working card all the time, and being completely aggressive against people trying to make the cards work without by their own.
And some updates just break because they don't include all packages for al versions of their driver. I updated a Ubuntu from 560 to 570 and I got a non responding graphic card and error missing the package nvidia-fs. I had to upgrade to 580 even if it it the latest and more buggy version
I have a 3090 ti without any issues
I have a 2080 and an Intel CPU – Linux Mint worked perfectly out of the box.
it works like a charm with my rtx2060 and the new rtx2080
there's several distros with a focus on gaming like steamos and bazzite. I personally use cachyos as it worked right out of the box without installing any drivers.
Linux runs nvidia fine. It can run most games without a problem. Whether or not it can run a game that’s heavily gatekept is another matter altogether.
I’m running a 3060 with CachyOS and no issues. Mint however gave me some problems. Fixable problems, but problems still. CachyOS worked straight out of the box.
I'm now 4 laptops deep in installing Bazzite. Tldr: anything with Nvidia open drivers will work r/n. In practice, anything above a 1060 is supported no issues.
Anything below and you'll have an issue with the display engine Wayland. You can make the old drivers work but only under X11. Gaming on an old silly laptop with GeForce Nvm 5200 is totally doable. Will run unreal engine games like Bioshock or portal. But requires manually setting everything up in Arch.
AMD is much more reliable and has improved for decades. Nvidia has their proprietary driver and new open source driver. Both work ok, but definitely less good than AMD.
Just make a live boot drive and try it out! Maybe get a little partition setup. I’ve been running Kubuntu for 3 weeks just fine! I am tech savvy though, but most of the things I needed to be savvy at were only because my PC is also my media server. It was less than 1.5 hours to set up gaming and all my window management options and whatnot. And now everything just works.
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I’m planning on making the switch soon. Was thinking of using an old Apple Airbook M1 to explore Linux
Just a heads up, running Linux on Apple’s proprietary hardware can get a little complicated. If this is your first foray into Linux, I recommend using a standard PC laptop.
Ahh ok. Maybe a dual boot on my PC is a better option. I’ve just always had bad luck with dual booting. I always seem to mess it up
highly recommend installing linux on a separate ssd and removing the windows one for installation.
Also your steam library most probably won't like being loaded from the windows drive, because it is formatted to ntfs, which isn't perfectly supported on linux.
I have some spare SSDs from an old build, would that be a better option? Right now I have two nvme drives right on the mobo for windows and games.
That’s a little more of a pain to remove/disable them, but yes the old SSD will work fine for Linux. Windows does not respect the user or their experience so if you dual boot MS will clobber your Linux boot loader at some point. Keeping thing physically separate allows you to retain control.
The only games that deffo have issues in Linux are titles with anti-cheat built in.
Windows will fuck up that pc you have running a linux partition so fast. Its possible you’re not doing anything wrong, aside from using windows.
Especially on an M1. In a different architecture you don't have Apple's translation layer, so you're stuck with ARM software only
yeah, ARM software support is only so-so (but getting better), major issues are mostly hardware related. for example, DisplayPort and Thunderbolt don't work yet.
Bazzite's been working pretty good for me. Was honestly easier to set up too, and fights me less, and runs smoother, and also doesn't spy on me.
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if only there was a much better operating system for gaming
because they don't give a fuck about you
can't wait to move to a new system
Waiting for SteamOS to replace Windows
Spin up some Linux distro while you wait.
Especially if you're a "power user", you'll have a lot of unlearning to do, might as well get started and go in prepared for a lot of disappointment.
I wouldn't count on Valve for a desktop OS. Their main responsibility is a good user experience on the Deck and Machine, which will be pretty console-like. Desktop mode's good enough for maintenance and modding, but not for vast hardware support.
There are some other general recommendations across Lemmy, but the ones that come up a lot are PopOS, CachyOS, and Bazzite.
I've been on Debian for years now. I'll update when I'm done gaming.
The Windows Updatinator!!! This will cause every Windows computer in the tri state area to restart five times over the next hour while constantly telling the user it’s almost done with updates!
[installs Linux]
Curse you Perry the Platypus!!!!!
How about BIOS update?
EAC games were literally unplayable on my machine without updating my BIOS.
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I don't know if this is the right time to mention that the end result of the "sneak attack" in that clip was a hug and a cute moment between friends... Which .. I don't think was the vibe you were trying to get me to imagine.
Damn, I really thought he ended up attacking the other guy
He's lying, Jason Momoa killed and ate Henry Cavil as is the custom
How could Aquaman do this
Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn't.
Man, The Boys was great those first few seasons
I just upgraded my hardware and when booting Windows back up, I got the error that basically says "Your license no longer works, you need to buy a new one". I'm happy to say that I'll be using Bazzite as my main driver for now on. It's honestly been great and works great if you use Steam alot.
On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it's been a while since I needed to.
But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.
Thanks for the reply. I did post something to their feedback service but they haven't reached out yet. I'm honestly not fussed because this gets me to jump into FOSS with both feet. Looking forward to donating money to people who care rather than spending it on a license for those who only desire more than their fair share.
Doesn't look like a shitpost to me
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