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I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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[โ€“] boovard@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm just sad I have an Nvidia GPU ๐Ÿ˜ข

[โ€“] olutukko@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same. Luckily it's gtx980 so it's not I bought it recently. Next gpu shall be amd

[โ€“] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I've got a GTX980ti, which runs fine with my POP_OS setup, but I'll be switching to AMD for my next GPU as well. If for no other reason than to not support Nvidia.

[โ€“] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What is wrong with Nvidia gpus with regard to Linux? I have no issues with mine.

[โ€“] bruhduh@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's trouble is in that it severely lacks features that it have on Windows, especially newest popular stream add-ons like voice and background blurring, troubles with Ray tracing and dlss, and most infamous problem is that Nvidia drivers absolutely would break your system updates eventually, and it can break your whole system Edit: source: i have laptop with Nvidia gpu

[โ€“] jj4211@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The nvidia drivers can be a pain, and some distributions don't care about nVidia's support schedule and push a kernel update and nVidia will no longer compile.

Also, the fact that a kernel update means the nvidia driver must recompile is a pain.

I'm holding out hope for the open drivers (they basically moved all the proprietary bits to run on the GPU) to eventually mean that the premiere nVidia experience is already integrated at some point in the future.

[โ€“] uis@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oooooor you can use in-tree nvidia driver

[โ€“] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I'd rather shit in my hands and clap for entertainment

[โ€“] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Nouveau? I've not exactly had a very reliable experience, and as far as I can see Nvidia doesn't really help to ensure that works in a timely way or a reliable way.

[โ€“] ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lack of open source drivers and junk support from Nvidia.

[โ€“] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the nvidia drivers themselves, not some hacked together drivers by a third party that barely work.

[โ€“] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I talk not about hacked together drivers(GPL-shim) by a third party(Nvidia) that barely works too

[โ€“] ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nouveau drivers are not made by Nvida? What are you even talking about? They are third party drivers that are not even fully functional because Nvida will not open source their own drivers for linux.

[โ€“] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I am saying that Nvidia here is third party. Nvidia is not kernel developer.

[โ€“] uis@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Because Nvidia is a bunch of dicks.

[โ€“] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'm using an Nvidia GPU on my POP!_OS Gaming PC it runs mostly without issue. The few times there has been driver problems, there's been an easy fix on System76's homepage soon after