Not sure what the point is here, 2 games that are very amd and vulcan optimized that work grate on amd Linux. Yeah we know amd drivers on Linux are grate nvidia are shit!
That’s only if you care about the GeForce Experience software, I don’t even have it installed so it doesn’t bug me about updates. You can download and install drivers any time without signing in to an account.
Earlier this year I had a months long issue where my desktop image would freeze if I set its refresh rate higher than 120. I thought my GPU was breaking up, but I finally found a post on the Nvidia forum where someone else had the same issue and realized that it was because of the newest driver. It took months for Nvidia to fix that. Two months ago I just decided to switch to AMD and sold my Nvidia card and haven’t had any issues with AMD so far.
My 3080M won’t go higher than 80W on Linux for the past 3 years that I have this laptop. I tried both the 535 and 545 drivers, still same issue. This is absolutely unacceptable.
To be fair AMD recently had a bug where the 6000 series GPUs would sit at 96 mhz unless you set your refresh rate below 100hz and that also took a couple months to be fixed. I was randomly getting 20fps in every game until I managed to find this gitlab issue. It started in kernel 6.4 and wasn’t fixed until 6.6 so I had to play at 90hz on my 165hz monitor for that whole span.
There’s something really wrong with your GPU usage in Windows. It’s hovering around 88%. I don’t think this is an accurate comparison. You need to figure out what’s wrong with your Windows install.
I installed Linux on my old laptop recently because it was impossible to install the drivers for the graphics card in windows. It just kept blue screening. Linux worked out of the box. From 13 fps to 120+
Everyone called me mad when I told them that I get more FPS in linux through wine/proton than on windows native with my AMD card, look who’s laughing now
People criticizing the ability of Linux to play games reminds me kind of like when people criticized solar power back in the early 90’s. They would say how it’s too expensive or it will never be able to produce the amount of electricity we need. Well, here we are.
Have you looked into diy? Over 60% of the installation cost from an installer can just be labor which is ridiculous because it’s actually quite easy to do. Safely and without a ton of specialized tooling. They have inverters now that’s basically everything you could possibly need in a single box which makes the install trivial
I remember looking into solar some 20 years ago. 5kWh battery bank was practically unheard of and iirc correctly was roughly $1k per kWh. Hopefully somebody with the time can come and correct numbers. Today you can find 5kWh battery banks for ~$2k.
Inverters I remember being about $5k-$10k for house sized and capable of running AC unit. Today roughly $1k-$2k.
Solar panels themselves I’ve not priced, but iirc I remember large arrays being $20k-$30k or more.
The cost to DIY a whole home off grid solar and battery bank system has gotten beyond easier, safer and an absolute fuck ton cheaper
Criticism of gaming on Linux some years back was very well deserved.
Barely any native games, and subpar drivers compared to windows didnt make it a good platform at all. And of course for basically almost every game the only choice was WINE, and more often than not it was impossible to make it work, or had game breaking issues.
Then came the Proton days and things started to change, and with the steam deck, it’s really incredible how far we’ve come.
I play Apex Legends, and I get way better performance in Linux. My regular squad mates were having graphical lag issues last weekend. Me on Linux, no issues. 120+fps
Yeah. It’s not kernel level like it is with Fortnite and Destiny. Works great on Linux and Steam Deck.
Edit: a tip if you take the plunge: When you launch it, it will pop up a box for “compiling vulkan shaders” with an option to skip. Do not skip it, at least not immediately. Apex has WAY more shaders than most games. In Steam settings, under downloads, I recommend enabling “shader pre-caching” as well as “allow background processing of vulkan shaders” so that ste can constantly compile shaders. It seems to make things work better “on the fly” as well. Nowadays I almost always hit skip on the shader dialogue.
Sometimes, not every time, my initial load into Apex has stuttering. This smooths out on my system after a minute or two, usually within the lobby. If it’s still happening once I am in the drop ship, I will take a late drop on my first game. Once it’s past all the shader compiling, it is buttery smooth the rest of the time. And keep in mind, this is not every time I play. Just sometimes. It’s way better than what my squaddies had last weekend.
That seems like a lot to say but I want to say it all so you don’t abandon ship because it’s choppy at first. That doesn’t last so stick it out. I haven’t had any chop or lag for weeks.
EDIT2: This is me playing on linux. ANy excuse to share this crazy win, no idea why we deserved to pull this off lol www.twitch.tv/videos/1961781842
Protondb.com is very helpful when a game doesnt run. I forget where I found info but like a good 10% of steam games dont run using Proton, no matter what you try. And a good 70+% of games work out of the box or with easy, common tweaks. We have some other tools available like Winetricks, Lutris, and if all else fails VM with GPU Passthru.
windows can have a similar troubleshooting workflow, dependent on Compatibility Mode for older games, and using GOG.com repacks to make things easier.
Linux has gotten a lot better with playing windows games. My issue is that I have one peice of software I want to use: Serato DJ Pro - and due to how that software works with hardware and real-time audio, I haven’t ever been able to get it to run on Linux. Mixxx is a thing, but it doesn’t have the features I use in Serato.
Would really love to drop windows for the one software I need it for.
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