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> how much performance could be gained if game vendors It might not even be the fault of vendors or their developers. GPU drivers are still a bit of a pain to

> how much performance could be gained if game vendors It might not even be the fault of vendors or their developers. GPU drivers are still a bit of a pain to non technical users outside of PopOS. They need to "just work" transparently to the user or they'll just leave for Windows. And game devs tend to use a premade engine - that engine needs to have good support for both Windows and Unix, or they will just default to the bigger market: Windows. So that's another important driver in migration to Unix. I frequently find the best way to game on Unix is to either dual boot or install a Windows VM

have_faith 2y ago
I recently tried PopOS because of it's benefits for having GPU drivers configured out of the box and was told that it would "just werk". And to be fair to it, it did mostly just work (ignoring unintuitive UX decisions in the OS generally). But I also spent two days trying to get Steam to show at the correct scale and eventually gave up.
- threetonesun 2y ago
  I think that’s just an issue with Steam on Linux, surprisngly. As much as I love Steam sometimes they just leave fundamental things like that unfixed.
- slowmovintarget 2y ago
  The recent 560 drivers for Nvidia also broke the "it just works" nature of Pop!_OS. I run it on my home desktop and managed to dodge that update. As far as I know, those drivers still break some games and have broken DX3D 12 support for Proton games. This means I have to manage package updates manually instead of just taking the "System Updates" through the UI. I say all of that, but I'm still far happier to be Windows-free (Linux at home, OS-X for work).
  - smegger001 2y ago
    Nvidia Linux drivers have always been a pain in the ass. My previous computer when ever either the driver or the kernel updated would the Nvidia driver would shit itself and boot to a black screen until I switched to single user mode and totally uninstalled and purged any configuration files for them then reinstalled them. I got to where I could type the comands blind on the black screen without single usermode letting me see the terminal I was working in.

have_faith 2y ago

I recently tried PopOS because of it's benefits for having GPU drivers configured out of the box and was told that it would "just werk". And to be fair to it, it did mostly just work (ignoring unintuitive UX decisions in the OS generally). But I also spent two days trying to get Steam to show at the correct scale and eventually gave up.

threetonesun 2y ago
I think that’s just an issue with Steam on Linux, surprisngly. As much as I love Steam sometimes they just leave fundamental things like that unfixed.
slowmovintarget 2y ago
The recent 560 drivers for Nvidia also broke the "it just works" nature of Pop!_OS. I run it on my home desktop and managed to dodge that update. As far as I know, those drivers still break some games and have broken DX3D 12 support for Proton games. This means I have to manage package updates manually instead of just taking the "System Updates" through the UI. I say all of that, but I'm still far happier to be Windows-free (Linux at home, OS-X for work).
- smegger001 2y ago
  Nvidia Linux drivers have always been a pain in the ass. My previous computer when ever either the driver or the kernel updated would the Nvidia driver would shit itself and boot to a black screen until I switched to single user mode and totally uninstalled and purged any configuration files for them then reinstalled them. I got to where I could type the comands blind on the black screen without single usermode letting me see the terminal I was working in.