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> Anyway, just my anecdotal experience. Those with dedicated gaming rigs will be more than fine with Linux, but those of us on underpowered hardware still seem
by umbra07 1y ago
> Anyway, just my anecdotal experience. Those with dedicated gaming rigs will be more than fine with Linux, but those of us on underpowered hardware still seem better off with Windows, unfortunately.
On the other hand, Linux (or more accurately, the Linux desktop ecosystem) doesn't support a lot of high-end PC gaming features well: HDR, Nvidia GPUs, VR, etc.
- weiliddat 1y agoAFAICT HDR is supported, like on the Steam Deck
- ChocolateGod 1y agoHDR on Nvidia with Linux is still very glitchy, I've had the driver crash a few times trying to use it.
- weiliddat 1y agoAh good to know. I think Windows isn’t that different, just that there's more motivation for NVIDIA or Microsoft to fix those things. I recall not that long ago a combination of Windows 11, my NVIDIA RTX 40xx, my previous Dell Alienware monitor also had some issues with switching between SDR and HDR (and later Dolby Vision brought even more of a mess). Meanwhile Android and iOS phones have been able to do it flawlessly for a while now…
- thfuran 1y agoCan you even watch decent Netflix on Linux yet?
- onli 1y agoUp to full HD, depending on what Netflix streams out. But this has nothing to do with graphics drivers or GPU performance.
- thfuran 1y agoYeah, but it does have to do with graphics in the linux desktop ecosystem and is particularly relevant to those without a dedicated gaming machine.
- ndriscoll 1y agoIt doesn't have anything to do with graphics in the Linux ecosystem. Netflix specifically blocks Linux from having decent quality so it's kind of pointless to discuss. If you want high quality, you can pirate it or rip from disc. Dirt cheap n100 minipcs are capable of playing UHD bluray rips in Linux just fine for example, so Netflix's relatively low bitrate media aren't an issue.
- thfuran 1y agoNot an issue except for any of the couple hundred million people who subscribe to Netflix at any rate.
- ndriscoll 1y agoNot an ecosystem issue at all. There's no "yet". Linux computers even on the very low end are already perfectly capable of playing 4k Netflix videos. You can easily prove this to yourself by downloading one via torrent (you can generally get exact stream rips with DRM removed if you want). Netflix just won't send UHD streams to Linux users. That's a political choice, not a technology problem, and it's easy enough to get the media elsewhere DRM-free if it's that important to you since Netflix evidently specifically does not want Linux users as customers.
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- dcl 1y agoDoesn't support NVIDIA GPU's!? Is this a display or gaming specific thing? All the ML people are using NVIDIA GPU's on Linux.
- benley 1y agoThere are indeed nvidia drivers for Linux and they're reasonably good for gaming, but the feature set sometimes lags far behind windows. There is no DLSS 3 for Linux, for instance. (as of a few months ago anyway - I haven't checked recently)
- komali2 1y agoNvidia support across the desktop ecosystem is poor, for example practically nonfunctional in Sway. And just buggy in other Wayland based desktop environments (kde seems to be the best in my experience).
- maxhille 1y agoWRT Nvidia+Sway this was certainly true not so long ago. But since the latest Ubuntu release and with a recent driver I am running this combo and it works flawlessly.
- komali2 1y agoReally! I'm happy to hear it, I'll give it a try on my desktop this weekend. I would love to get all my machines on the same desktop environment once and for all.
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- _aavaa_ 1y agoTo the extent that Linux doesn’t support nvidia gpu it is actually Nvidia not supporting Linux and keeping their drivers proprietary.
- p_ing 1y agoBut that doesn't matter. If the feature isn't there, Linux is non-viable if you want/rely on said feature. It doesn't matter whose 'fault' it is.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoIt does matter, because people will then go on to blame the linux developers for the lack of the feature, when they should instead be blaming Nvidia's antagonistic stance and stop supporting them.
- justinrubek 1y agoIt does to me. I don't buy their products, simple as that.
- preisschild 1y ago> On the other hand, Linux (or more accurately, the Linux desktop ecosystem) doesn't support a lot of high-end PC gaming features well: HDR, Nvidia GPUs, VR, etc. > HDR Already supported > Nvidia GPUs You have it the wrong way around. NVIDIA had issues supporting Linux, not Linux supporting NVIDIA. AMD drivers work fine, so its not a linux specific issue. > VR SteamVR works though?
- cassianoleal 1y ago> > HDR > Already supported Is it though? I confess I haven’t tried in a few weeks but until last time I did, to get HDR in games you had to start a session with `gamescope` rather than a DE, and still had to set a bunch of flags - and in some ways have a very subpar experience with problems with mouse movements and other issues I can’t recall. I exclusively game on Linux and I find the experience far superior than doing anything on the other OS, but last I checked HDR was not actually supported.
- windward 1y agoIt works on the Deck.
- cassianoleal 1y agoThe Deck runs Gamescope.
- preisschild 1y agoGNOME and KDE support HDR now too, so if you use those DEs you dont need gamescope anymore.
- cassianoleal 1y agoKDE has supported it for a while on the desktop. Still needed Gamescope to make it work in games. Like I mentioned, I haven't tried it in some time so it may have changed.
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- graynk 1y agoIt's getting there though. I own a high-end PC with nvidia GPU and I play VR on my Linux setup via ALVR (I own Quest 3) It's not straightforward and full of workarounds I have to do, but once you're in the game it works great
- Zardoz84 1y agoI have Debian with KDE Plasma 6 and I have enabled HDR