NVidia RTX 3070, closed source drives, rock solid. Open source drivers usually lag behind, and was pretty broken when I first got it.
Haven’t seen a webcam not work in Linux in years, they are all mostly standardised. Have used Logitech, MS, and a HP camera, along with laptop built in cameras, all worked fine.
As an nVidia user, I can confirm that it does suck quite a bit at times. I've had to fix a broken upgrade twice now (not fun), and attempting to use the Nouveau driver initially was just painfully slow. The nVidia devs are the main problem with Wayland progress, and AMD video hardware is starting to look much more tempting from the Linux side.
Customization is awesome. That's the main thing keeping me in Linux rather than Windows.
On one side my experience with Wayland and gaming couldn't be smoother since I switched to AMD.
However anything related to ML and tensorflow has been an immense PITA, not only to have it working but performance-wise the alternative to NVIDIA's CUDAS is not matching by far its competitor.
I'm starting to wonder if I should consider having two cards.
holoiso is great for a gaming focused distro, essentially the steam deck os but you can install on most devices, but may not play so great with Nvidia cards.
geruda Linux is an arch based distro that is built with gaming in mind and has many flavors of desktop environments to choose from.
What? If I'm playing a game developed for windows, on linux, via proton, is that not me playing a game using linux? If you want to post about a native linux game, nobody will stop you, go for it, but don't try to exclude other people's gaming experiences just because the game isn't native.
My wife actually loves playing KPatience! I’ve tried to get her on to slightly more meaty games but sometimes it’s the simple ones that win people over :-)
My GF is addicted to some mobile crossword puzzle game, and Wordle, but tells me video games are lame and thinks I waste my time with TESO and Fallout.
At this point, the only way I see a game being native is with it being an AppImage or equivalent. The resources to keep up a Windows flavor along a native port would be wasteful. The only thing I would like to see is companies stop using launchers and kernel based anti-cheat systems.
That’s basically how steam does linux support now. There are different runtimes you can target that get frozen and have long term support. The issue is these namespaces/containers/runtimes only became available in late 2019, and meanwhile proton was getting so good and the Linux marketshare is so small that linux steam runtimes didn’t really take off. If Linux market share continues to grow, Valve is ready to support developers building better supported linux native binaries.
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