• mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    A lot of us use Linux for gaming now. Supports almost all games. But for God’s sake, pick a amd graphics card if you plan to do Linux gaming. Nvidia is buggy as hell.

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      1 year ago

      Ugh. I’ve been wanting to switch for a while but that’s a bummer to hear. I might just have to bite the bullet and deal with buggy drivers. Back when I got my monitors like 6 years ago there wasn’t a ton of options for sub-5ms IPS displays with adaptive sync technology so I had to go with Acer Predators and G-Sync but now I’m kinda stuck with NVIDIA. I’m sure there’s more options for monitors now but I’m not dropping that kind of money on monitors again.

      Unless something has changed? Is GSync still proprietary? (Edit: looks like G-Sync does work on AMD cards now but only for newer monitors, dang.)

      Ironically, I remember not long ago it was AMD that used to have the crap Linux drivers.

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        1 year ago

        Nvidia drivers aren’t nearly as bad as most make them out to be. If you already have one, I’d say give it a try anyway with a distro that offers good support for them.

      • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        All you really have to do is make sure the distribution of Linux you’re installing supports Nvidia out of the box. Their drivers are not that bad anymore, they used to be much worse.

    • Aurelian@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      My steam deck has been a god send! I am definitely looking forward to using Linux or trying it when I get to rebuilding my PC.

      My biggest hope is that by the time I rebuild anti cheat for games like destiny 2 will work…