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Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 days agoIt’s got dual graphics cards, with the graphics an Nvidia one. I’ve heard that they are finicky with Linux…
I’ve moved my old laptop over to mint, to try it out. That all worked well, but I couldn’t get proton vpn working and couldn’t try out my games over stream and epic.
The next machine I buy will be purposely a Linux machine, I mean to get it in januari so the period of delay is bearable.
It’s not nearly as bad as some people describe. Some of it keeps echoing from what people experienced in the past, and they’ve just never bothered to educate themselves on how it is now.
Worst case scenario, you can always drop an iso onto a usb stick, and take things for a spin
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Not really. I’ve been using Nvidia cards on Linux for decades, the complaints are blown way, way out of proportion. Just install the proprietary drivers from the distro’s repos and 99% of the time that’s all that’s needed. The people who complain usually screwed something up, like installing drivers from the wrong source or not installing the meta package for their kernel headers so the drivers can’t rebuild on kernel updates. Just follow the official instructions for your distro and that should be all you have to do, there’s a lot of bad advice floating around on forums.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
How is HDR support with nvidia on Linux? I have my PC hooked up to the TV so use it for HDR in games and also for movies and TV shows.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I haven’t tried it, but my understanding is it’s still somewhat of a beta feature
Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 days ago
I see, well I might try it out for sure, like you said it’s quite hard to cull all the different sources of advice and the plethora of flavors of Linux to take into consideration.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A lot of it depends on your distro. I use exclusively Mint and Debian (primarily Debian), and everything works fine on both of those. My laptop runs Debian 13 and has the iGPU and an RTX4070, and one of my servers has both an RTX A6000 and a T400, both being passed through Proxmox into two different Debian 13 VMs. Everything works without issue. Before Debian 13 on the laptop I had Mint 22, and before that Ubuntu 23.10, and both worked without issue as well.
philpo@feddit.org 5 days ago
Try Nobara as a live system or on a small boot disc you have lying around (ssds go for cheap these days) not that I would recommend it anymore as a distribution (nowadays Fedora is a better choice), but it helps you figure out if your setup will cause issues. (If it works on Nobara it likely will work on fedora)
Personally from a gaming perspective I would advise against Mint.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Thanks for the advice!