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• Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have 1065 Ti without any issues. The nvidia not compatible is outdated and they started playing ball recently by working on open source drivers. Nvidia is huge in the AI space and AI computing is pretty much 100% Linux.

  There are gaming issues though on Linux in the form of anti-cheat systems, but other than that running things with Steam Proton just works although specific games that use obscure windows APIs might not be as performant.

  Dirt 3 used the NTsynch for the NTFS filesystem and once it got fixed the frame rate saw a massive jump for example.

  Long term people are supporting Linux gaming a lot more since it’s already 3% of the playerbase and requires pretty minimal effort for added 3% audience to make Steam Proton play work. Also with the release of the Steam Machine 2026 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop™

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  • Qwel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fyi, the drivers for AI and gaming are not the same. They’re in the same project, but they don’t use the same parts of that project. I wouldn’t use them to argue for the stability of gaming.

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It works fine for both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. There’s a slight performance loss on Nvidia cards but not enough that you will ever notice.

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• Flames5123@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they want to try gaming though, they might get bottlenecks from running the OS from the USB port. I could be wrong though.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the OS itself will be fine since the kernel and all that will be loaded to memory. But if you install games on that USB stick, they might be painful to run/load (depending on the game, some do disk reads while you’re playing, some do it all before the level).

      If you have a free partition to install it on, try using it to install a game or two while using the live boot. Or hell, you could even just install the OS there and then nuke the partition if you decide against it. It wasn’t a long process iirc (with Fedora), most of my time was spent learning about what the implications of each choice were. If you’re just experimenting, those choices don’t matter as much (just don’t format your existing partitions).

      Though they’ve also got USB external drives (HDD and SSD) that perform better than USB sticks. Some external SSDs probably still way outperform internal HDDs, even.

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• BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been using Fedora with my RTX 3090 and it works great. I haven’t tried the newer cards, but the 30 series seem to work great in my experience.

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a 2080 and an Intel CPU – Linux Mint worked perfectly out of the box.

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• JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Diurnambule@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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• Twongo@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it works like a charm with my rtx2060 and the bew rtx2080

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• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a 3090 ti without any issues

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