So I’ve been a little wary of installing Linux on my desktop since I have a 1660 ti as a graphics card and read that there are some problems with drivers and such. Are my fears unfounded/outdated? Anyone experienced any problems and what Linux distro should I look to use for gaming?
@pleasemakesense > Are my fears unfounded/outdated?
They are mostly outdated. Nvidia works just as fine as amd does
I have 3060 Ti and have had no trouble. I even used it with Arch and Gentoo, and all I needed was installing the drivers (the package manager did it) and it worked out of the box.
Running KDE Neon here, my Nvidia experience has been faultless, adding the PPA and installing the drivers is reliable and straightforward. Wayland works acceptably, but running a single 4k 27" monitor X11 works perfectly, so at this point in time I see no reason to swap to Wayland - I’m sure in time I’ll adopt Wayland, I’m simply not quite ready to drop my ability to create custom fan profiles using GWE just yet.
Nvidia X Server settings are nice, as is nvidia-smi.
To my understanding, nvidia gpus mainly have issues with specific things like wayland, it otherwise works fine for the most part.
I still plan to switch to amd eventually, but its working fine. Linux mint has been a plug and play experience for me and is what I and many others would recommend if you are looking for the easiest transition from Windows.
I wouldnt think about it too hard tho cuz you can just install another distro relatively quickly if you dont like it.
