If they don’t use AMD then good luck, Nvidia is historically garbage on Linux. I’ve built my rig to be AMD only for the specific use case of gaming on Linux so it has been a fantastic experience for me.
To be totally honest, I‘ve had to work quite a bit to get my nvidia gpu under control but so far it works. I get weird behavior at times and the proprietary trash of a driver updating is like russian roulette (on ubuntu mind you) but it does perform decent. A lot better than the nouveau driver btw which gave me 10 fps at metro.
I agree with you mostly and went AMD instead of Nvidia on whatever Cyber Monday is now. I just want to point out that the Nvidia drivers made for Fedora also come with a gaming flavor (of Fedora) called Nobara that has received high praise.
The only reason I’m running an AMD card is because of the pandemic. I’ve run NVIDIA cards for over a decade with Linux and it hasn’t been bad. There were times where it was painful but these days it’s pretty easy.
It’s really not that bad. I used Nvidia for something like 10 years on Linux and only recently switched to AMD. I was able to play games just fine, and I only really had issues when I switched to rolling releases (Arch and then Tumbleweed) because sometimes the driver and kernel would get mismatched and I’d either need to rollback or reinsntall the update. I played tons of games in that time.
AMD is a better experience on Linux, but mostly for things like Wayland and driver updates. Actual day-to-day usage is fine with Nvidia, just nothing to write home about.
That said, I have zero experience with laptops, and I’ve heard that can be a royal pain. However, I don’t know if it’s better on AMD, or if graphics switching just sucks in general on Linux.
Yup, the best part about Arch is the wiki. If you can’t find what you need, you suck at searching, because it’s well organized and has tons of information.
I don’t use Arch anymore, but I still refer to the Arch wiki because it’s so great.
I’ve been running Wayland for a while on my amd rig and haven’t had any problems with xwayland in regards to compatibility. Nvidia on the other hand is problematic but the drivers seem to be improving with every release.
I had that issue too, apparently the vendor gave me a code for the wrong piece of hardware, either way amd support helped me get the correct code that verified properly.
Nice, this is League right? I have well over 10K games of Heroes of the Storm going back to 2015, all on Linux using Wine. I am queuing up for the next one right now.
Back when the development was still going at a breakneck speed I was always worried that a new patch might break my HotS Wine setup. But during all that these years there was only a single week when I couldn’t play. Somehow the Wine stack was always just good enough to keep up with the changes. For example DXVK came along just in time when the DX9 rendering was no longer supported.
there is a guide for playing league of legends on linux, you can find it here: leagueoflinux.org/install/, also, riot is conscious that there are people playing on wine, due to that their anticheat doesnt detect wine players as hackers: leagueoflinux.org/faq/, and about my desktop, here is the config: lemmy.world/post/6869753
I installed it using Lutris (flatpak) some time ago and it works flawlessly. The only problem was during the installation where it freezes and you have to end process RiotClient.exe for it to finish, but apart from that it’s amazing how good it works.
I used to help friends get their nvidia cards’ 3D drivers working with various distros around that time period. Most would have given up on it entirely if not for that. It’s so nice how much easier it is now. Now the hassle is usually anti-cheat… I’m hoping the pressure from the Steamdeck taking off in popularity counteracts that.
I disagree with your implication that using Steam on Linux makes it pointless to use Linux; I think that it is always better if you are able to replace some proprietary software in your life with freedom-respecting software even if you may still be using other proprietary software.
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but the FSF does actually acknowledge that replacing all of the proprietary software that one uses can be an incredibly disruptive, difficult process, and they encourage users to embark on the journey of complete freedom one step at a time - check out their Freedom Ladder campaign.
Sounds like you’re about where I was at the beginning of my Linux journey. I was a Windows user from birth (well okay, my very first computer was dual-booted with OS/2) because that’s what computers came with, etc. I started playing with Raspberry Pis as a hobby, I learned a little Linux, and at the time you HAD to do a lot of stuff in Raspberry Pi OS through the terminal; it didn’t have a GUI package manager yet, so I learned some bash.
Then my laptop died, I got a new one, and Windows 8.1 was inflicted upon me. I decided to try desktop Linux.
I did decide to keep Windows 8.1 around because I still sorta knew how to use it and that’s where all the software I knew how to use ran, so I dual booted. I tried out a few distros in VirtualBox, and Linux Mint just felt like home and it’s been my preferred daily driver ever since.
It is a different system, you will have to get used to doing things a little differently and thinking in Linux’s terms. If you have something you NEED to do, and you’re struggling to figure it out in Linux, go ahead and boot into Windows, get it done, turn it in, then come back to Linux and without that time pressure see if you can figure it out now. Eventually you’ll stop booting to Windows.
As for gaming: Valve has done a lot for us. It’s amazing how good it is now. Used to be there was a list of games that did work on Linux, now it’s more efficient to make a list of games that don’t. Mainly competitive multiplayer games because of EAC. Some of the high end bells and whistles don’t work as well in Linux because they don’t get as much attention as Windows does, but I’ve spent a lot of time in some very good looking games made in Unity and Unreal.
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