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Good quality Nvidia drivers and support for games, mostly.

by plandis 3y ago

vorticalbox 3y ago
I've been running Linux on my work laptop for 6 years now and Nvidia drives are pretty good.
- eddythompson80 3y ago
  Assuming you don’t use Wayland of course.
  - vorticalbox 3y ago
    Not currently I have enabled it and quickly went back as the DE would crash (running gnome on pop!_os)
  - sudohackthenews 3y ago
    I’m on Fedora 39 and nvidia drivers work great on Wayland (gnome)
    - Filligree 3y ago
      Unless you run Discord, or any Steam game that doesn’t run at you monitor update frequency.
    - eddythompson80 3y ago
      Huh, I’ve had so many problems running Wayland KDE on Arch with nvidia drivers. Maybe I should give gnome another try
      - rlmineing_dead 3y ago
        Hi, your issue with nvidia on Wayland is probably Xwayland (see: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...) I'd see if https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg-xwayland-explicit-sync-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg-xwayland-explicit-sy... and possibly KwinFT works out for you.
- cfn 3y ago
  I've been running Linux on a workstation for a year and NVIDIA drivers kill it every other update. I'm seriously considering moving it to the server room and getting something else for my desktop.
coeneedell 3y ago
This problem with Linux is pretty much gone and has been for a couple years now.
- hutzlibu 3y ago
  So ... all the windows games now run on Linux? That would be news to me. And I was just recently messing with drivers, kernels etc to get a working result, but in the end I still could not play the (officially supported) game on Linux that I wanted (opposed to just works on windows), so good for you that your problems went away, but please note, that other people might have had other experiences.
  - tyfon 3y ago
    The vast majority just run out of the box with steam now, often with better performance than windows. Quite a few that use other launchers are "plug and play" installs with lutris (like WoW).
  - dijit 3y ago
    Name a game and it probably works on linux these days. My favourite games all do, but I'm already using consoles exclusively for my gaming because I was unhappy being held prisoner.
    - hutzlibu 3y ago
      Well, Total Warhammer 3 for example did not work for me through official Steam, even though it should. It runs on the same computer on windows without problems. And with much more tinkering I surely could get it to run on Linux as well .. but I want to play games to relax and not get and solve new problems.
  - blablablerg 3y ago
    Not all, kernel level anticheat with the big multiplayer games is a problem these days (areweanticheatyet.com), but other than that, most titles work.
mstokholm 3y ago
This is mostly a non-issue now - I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3, Dota 2, Warcraft III and everything else on Ubuntu 22.04 now thanks to Steam and Proton. Performance is awesome.
- hiq 3y ago
  > Warcraft III Did you get w3champions (https://www.w3champions.com/ https://www.w3champions.com/) running as well? I had a quick look but it didn't seem that straightforward.
- LtWorf 3y ago
  Meanwhile valve's own games like portal 2 and team fortress 2 no longer work on linux. Inspires confidence -_-'
Almondsetat 3y ago
Why are people so obsessed with gaming? It's unbelievable how this industry has gotten so many people hooked, to the point of accepting kernel level monitoring
- dijit 3y ago
  I solved it by just running a console. People look down on me for it, but the way I see it: my computing experience is not keeping me prisoner; and I value my time too much to dig about certain issues, you're guaranteed to suffer the "my FPS isn't so good I will investigate" or "this game doesn't run so I will investigate" situations. Cheats are less common too, so there's less incentive for kernel anti-cheat, and if there was: it would be contained to my "game computer" anyway.
  - ssbash 3y ago
    Yup, after I switched to a console - I was finally able to just play games with my friends and not waste mental energy on fiddling with settings. I don’t have to worry about downloading a game launcher riddled with telemetry or wait 6 months after launch for a PC port to reach a playable state.
- recursive 3y ago
  I don't think this necessarily represents obsession. It just means they care about gaming at least as much "kernel level monitoring". As a baseline, I don't think there are many people who care much about that. I'm not sure what it is.
  - Almondsetat 3y ago
    Transpose this gaming obsession to other facets of life and see how it goes. Imagine if most cars were modeled after Lamborghinis and people complained about the lack of turbo or carbon seats when hopping on your Honda Civic. Imagine if most parks were modeled after football fields and people complained about the lack of goals and lines in your backyard. Imagine if most knifes were modeled after big damascus blades and people complained about your table knifes when they come for dinner for not being cool and sharp enough

Good quality Nvidia drivers and support for games, mostly.

vorticalbox 3y ago

I've been running Linux on my work laptop for 6 years now and Nvidia drives are pretty good.

eddythompson80 3y ago
Assuming you don’t use Wayland of course.
- vorticalbox 3y ago
  Not currently I have enabled it and quickly went back as the DE would crash (running gnome on pop!_os)
- sudohackthenews 3y ago
  I’m on Fedora 39 and nvidia drivers work great on Wayland (gnome)
  - Filligree 3y ago
    Unless you run Discord, or any Steam game that doesn’t run at you monitor update frequency.
  - eddythompson80 3y ago
    Huh, I’ve had so many problems running Wayland KDE on Arch with nvidia drivers. Maybe I should give gnome another try
    - rlmineing_dead 3y ago
      Hi, your issue with nvidia on Wayland is probably Xwayland (see: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...) I'd see if https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg-xwayland-explicit-sync-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg-xwayland-explicit-sy... and possibly KwinFT works out for you.
cfn 3y ago
I've been running Linux on a workstation for a year and NVIDIA drivers kill it every other update. I'm seriously considering moving it to the server room and getting something else for my desktop.

coeneedell 3y ago

This problem with Linux is pretty much gone and has been for a couple years now.

hutzlibu 3y ago
So ... all the windows games now run on Linux? That would be news to me. And I was just recently messing with drivers, kernels etc to get a working result, but in the end I still could not play the (officially supported) game on Linux that I wanted (opposed to just works on windows), so good for you that your problems went away, but please note, that other people might have had other experiences.
- tyfon 3y ago
  The vast majority just run out of the box with steam now, often with better performance than windows. Quite a few that use other launchers are "plug and play" installs with lutris (like WoW).
- dijit 3y ago
  Name a game and it probably works on linux these days. My favourite games all do, but I'm already using consoles exclusively for my gaming because I was unhappy being held prisoner.
  - hutzlibu 3y ago
    Well, Total Warhammer 3 for example did not work for me through official Steam, even though it should. It runs on the same computer on windows without problems. And with much more tinkering I surely could get it to run on Linux as well .. but I want to play games to relax and not get and solve new problems.
- blablablerg 3y ago
  Not all, kernel level anticheat with the big multiplayer games is a problem these days (areweanticheatyet.com), but other than that, most titles work.

mstokholm 3y ago

This is mostly a non-issue now - I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3, Dota 2, Warcraft III and everything else on Ubuntu 22.04 now thanks to Steam and Proton. Performance is awesome.

hiq 3y ago
> Warcraft III Did you get w3champions (https://www.w3champions.com/ https://www.w3champions.com/) running as well? I had a quick look but it didn't seem that straightforward.
LtWorf 3y ago
Meanwhile valve's own games like portal 2 and team fortress 2 no longer work on linux. Inspires confidence -_-'

Almondsetat 3y ago

Why are people so obsessed with gaming? It's unbelievable how this industry has gotten so many people hooked, to the point of accepting kernel level monitoring

dijit 3y ago
I solved it by just running a console. People look down on me for it, but the way I see it: my computing experience is not keeping me prisoner; and I value my time too much to dig about certain issues, you're guaranteed to suffer the "my FPS isn't so good I will investigate" or "this game doesn't run so I will investigate" situations. Cheats are less common too, so there's less incentive for kernel anti-cheat, and if there was: it would be contained to my "game computer" anyway.
- ssbash 3y ago
  Yup, after I switched to a console - I was finally able to just play games with my friends and not waste mental energy on fiddling with settings. I don’t have to worry about downloading a game launcher riddled with telemetry or wait 6 months after launch for a PC port to reach a playable state.
recursive 3y ago
I don't think this necessarily represents obsession. It just means they care about gaming at least as much "kernel level monitoring". As a baseline, I don't think there are many people who care much about that. I'm not sure what it is.
- Almondsetat 3y ago
  Transpose this gaming obsession to other facets of life and see how it goes. Imagine if most cars were modeled after Lamborghinis and people complained about the lack of turbo or carbon seats when hopping on your Honda Civic. Imagine if most parks were modeled after football fields and people complained about the lack of goals and lines in your backyard. Imagine if most knifes were modeled after big damascus blades and people complained about your table knifes when they come for dinner for not being cool and sharp enough