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Is it worth the trouble with an Nvidia card? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 1 day ago by hellerphant@lemmy.cafe to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Hey folks. I’m a new dad which means my gaming time is at a premium, but I am going through a big cleanse of the enshittification era of the internet right now, and Windows 11 is kinda giving me bad vibes.

Last time I tried to run Linux it was ok and worked the majority of the time, but ray tracing and a few games caused some issues. I was also using game pass which of course doesn’t work on Linux, so I dropped back to windows.

How is Nvidia life these days? I’ve got a 3080 and an AMD 9800X3D so it should be fine for most games I imagine.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For gaming, pop os has always been good for me on amd

[–] stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same here. I've never run into any of the edge cases that need the bleeding edge updates, and I've been running the same install for a while without any stability issues.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I literally tested my whole steam library. Around 100 games. Only like 3 wouldn't work at all, and those were old somewhat wonky games. I even got most non steams working too. In steam, a minute looking at proton db and making minor adjustments to the config was needed maybe 5-10% of the time.

Important to note that most of my games are 10+ years old

[–] stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

I'm amazed by how well it works, Proton is literally a game changer! Most of my games are older too, but I purchased the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Farming Simulator 25 on launch day or soon after with zero Linux associated issues. Not being very interested in multiplayer games helps a lot. My only multiplayer game is Elder Scrolls Online, and they've made Steam Deck specific tweaks, so I'm lucky there!