Also, just a stable accelerated desktop on install. Basic home/office and web/media consumption use.
Regarding cuda, yeah never know. Probably not for a long while as one of the benefits of their current driver is that it uses the same codebase between linux, freebsd and windows, so they should have feature parity in that regard. There are definitely pro/cons for their driver though.
I ran into this exact same problem and spent a painfully long week trying to fix it. Unfortunately I couldn’t… My only solution was to switch distros and the problem disappeared. I went with Fedora and now every game works like a dream. I still don’t know what the issue was but it seems to be something to do with having an AMD system and using steam on Ubuntu.
Probably not the solution you’re looking for, but it is a solution!
You can turn off shader precompilation in Steam, but that’s not tied to the distro.
If you have it off, you won’t need to have the pass run before starting a game, but then the problem that it was aimed at solving comes up – shader compilation has to happen during gameplay, and this can cause momentary hiccups when a shader is used for the first time.
Steam can optionally do background shader compilation, in which case it’ll run at some point after updating a game, rather than right before a game runs. That may or may not be what one wants.
Interesting! I think I'll keep it on and just deal with the fact that it runs on CPU and takes a while, then. I was just wondering if it running on CPU was a mistake or something wrong on my part.
By default only the officially supported games are listed. If a game is not supported this does not in.any way mean that it will not work. In my experience everything except some anticheat infested games will not work. For some rare games some tinkering is necessary, yiucan typically find infos here in the protondb
To make all games visible, go to your settings then go to the “Compatibility” settings, then locate the “Steam Play” section. Toggle on the “Enable Steam Play for all other titles,” choose the latest Proton version from the dropdown menu, click “OK,” and restart Steam.
Saves are either stored in wineprefix/user/documents user/Appdata/local user/Appdata Roaming I juat go around copying those and games that I own legit steam stores the saves
For me it’s GOG first. Using lgogdownloader and wine directly (in a custom apparmor profile). No DRM, no forced updates, no annoying client that takes forever to start. Games are also dramatically much easier to isolate and sandbox this way.
If the game is not there, then yes, Steam (as a separate unix user).
While I’d generally rather have Steam’s no-opt-out automatic updates rather than GOG’s manual updates, Skyrim’s update a while back breaking modded play for months was definitely a counterexample.
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