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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Thanks for this!

Out of interest, how is the driver support for Nvidia cards? This is the thing that has always put me off bailing on Windows for games.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Bazzite works wonderfully even for non techy types. On mobile at least, NV drivers are working well but there is a performance penalty. Surprisingly, when the windows drivers are CPU limited, the linux one is actually performs better but, generally, there is a performance penalty on linux. AMD GPUs have parity except for Raytracing, at least from what I've seen, RADV performs below the proprietary driver on Windows.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for the reply and good to know !

    The types of games I tend to play, I don’t think a slight performance hit will really matter. Definitely going to have a look into Bazzite this weekend ;)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm not personally running Bazzite, but before I switched to an AMD card, Nvidia worked just fine for me. Bazzite being more streamlined and gaming-specific, I can only imagine it would do perfectly well running Nvidia.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Practically speaking, we are at a turning point regarding Nvidia on Linux. Things were bad before but they have improved significantly. Newer drivers from Nvidia are partially open-source and they seem good so far.

    As long as your GPU isn't too old, it should be fine. Bur you should verify before commiting.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thanks ! Had a check (I have a 4070ti desktop card and 3070ti mobile card) looks like I'm good and all supported. Going to finally make the switch tomorrow, wish me luck :)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm running a 2080 ti and while it's def aging and showing it now, it's been great so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The 2080ti is great card!

    I’ll be honest, I stay up to date on gens because I can through work. Reality is, games seem to have plateaud a good few years ago and we’re upgrading due to shonky development / crap and lazy optimisation most of the time.

    I play primarily metroidvania’s and older games 95% of the time and if it wasn’t for work I would probably still be rocking my 1080ti :)

    Anyhow, rant over and thanks for the feedback !

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