Yes i know. But it’s a brand new computer and i want to see it working. Moreover, if it’s not working here it might not work in any other game, so this is something i want to make work.
Secure Boot is definitely possible with oS TW. You can select to enable it on install.
With AMD you will be using the open-source drivers for gaming which means openSUSE will give you the benefit of the latest and greatest drivers for best performance.
Honestly just install it with your DE of choice and install Steam. Even for non-Steam games I find that loading them through Steam to use Proton is typically better than setting up Wine independently.
I changed the file download to the latest, which at this moment is linux-firmware-20231111.tar.gz. After the update-initramfs, reboot (since I already ran the PPA earlier…to no avail), and this time it worked, and it immediately showed me the second monitor, which had been dead for the last couple of hours since I started fighting this thing.
A second update after this is, since I’m using Wayland and multi-monitor (two HDMI connections, one the main monitor, the second to a big LCD TV)…when the TV is turned off, the monitor starts to flicker rearranging the windows (!?). I describe the issue a bit more in detail here… lemm.ee/post/14853567
You can go download their stuff if you want the absolute latest or something, but unless I had some kind of problem with the driver my distro shipped, I probably wouldn’t bother.
I also have a 7800 XT and use Debian. I had to download firmware from git.kernel.org, as not even the package in unstable is new enough: stable has 2023-02-10, unstable currently has 2023-05-15, while 7800 XT (and 7700 XT) needs 2023-08-04 or newerAt least bookworm-backports has a new enough kernel now. (6.5, IIRC 6.4 is the minimum.)
But to get ROCm working, I ended up adding AMD repositories and using its drivers with the 6.1 kernel from stable.
I put Garuda on my wife’s gaming PC, she absolutely loves it & it does everything it should, no problems whatsoever. And it’s based on arch, so if there is something, I know how to fix it. Awesome beginner gaming distro imo, recommend!
How’s the state of Nvidia’s drivers? Do the shiny new features work? Things like RT, frame gen, ray reconstruction, and randomly crashing the game because the driver has tripped TDR yet again?
The 545 Beta drivers apparently support a ton of new features on Linux like VRR. Frame Gen is the only thing not supported by Proton yet I think.
Tbh though, if you’re on Nvidia I would stay on Windows. It’s definitey doable to use Linux and get equal performance. Until Nvidia is ready for Wayland though I wouldn’t switch.
Good news is NVK is a new Open Source Nvidia Vulkan driver so in like a year or two things should be as good as on AMD. The driver already loads most games with DXVK 1.5.1 but runs them at like 1 FPS if they have anything like Valheim Graphics and above. Reclocking should be coming soon though so the situation will improve. After that it’s just working to get all features in and optimize.
As someone who’s really into gaming and gives NVIDIA on Linux a try now and then, the one thing that really bugs me is DLDSR isn’t available at all, nor is plain, non AI DSR. The latter isn’t hard to replicate, but I miss the extra bang for your buck of the DL variant.
Granted, mine is a very niche use case but I rely on it a lot since it works great on older titles or ones with bad or no native AA and such.
It ‘opens’ on Steam Deck and Mac but it runs poorly even before really starting your city (City Planner Plays tried it to benchmark), so it appears that it is at least compatible with Linux via Proton.
I’ve been running the same arch install for atleast 5 years… I honestly can’t recommend any other distro because I haven’t used many for a long enough period of time
I also used Arch for 5+ years and had very few issues. If you know what you’re doing, it’s not hard to keep it running stable.
I’m now on Tumbleweed and have even fewer issues.
But honestly, what’s wrong with stable distros? I recommend them by default because there’s far less chance for anything to go wrong day to day, and your only concern is at release time. I switched because I’m a developer and using the latest is better for me so I can test on the latest versions of things. I also prefer to fix things as I go instead of potentially lose a day to a release upgrade going sideways (happened twice, once with Ubuntu and again with Fedora).
Btw, Tumbleweed is great because it configures snapper by default, which let’s you roll back if an upgrade goes poorly. I’ve used it a few times over 2-3 years, mostly when my NVIDIA driver got mismatched from the kernel. I’m now on an AMD GPU and haven’t needed it since.
As someone who used Arch for several years and has been on Tumbleweed for a few years now, life happens. I ran Arch on my laptop, desktop, and a server, and I could go weeks if not 1-2 months between actively using one of those. But when I do, I want the latest software.
So I now use Tumbleweed on my desktop and laptop and Leap on my server. Updates are no longer painful whether it’s been a week or a month. I also switched to AMD GPU, which further reduced my issues.
I think Arch is fine, Tumbleweed just fits my lifestyle more. I’ll probably move my server to MicroOS one of these days, probably when Leap 15.6 EOL is announced.
I have a work computer, Steam Deck, and video game console as well. Sometimes I just don’t get around to using my desktop PC or laptop.
I also have kids, and they use my computers more than I do (mostly Minecraft). But I don’t personally use them every day (usually 1-2x/week, if that), and I don’t run updates every time I use my computer. I do try to remember to update them once/week (usually Saturdays), but that doesn’t happen very consistently.
And then there are vacations and whatnot (e.g. we went on a family trip for 3 weeks last year). Life gets busy, and mine doesn’t revolve around my computers, my computers are merely tools I use to play games, work on personal projects, and sometimes watch shows.
Most Linux distributions are quite reliable, even rolling ones. What usually causes instability are the closed source applications people choose to run on them.
I’m not just pointing out nVidia drivers, I’ve seen Teams and Visual Studio Code crash an otherwise stable Ubuntu LTS.
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