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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've always wondered how good proton is when the hardware is less standardized than a console/pc hybrid. Can you really just slap in any modern x86 CPU and Nvidia Card and just go? How's driver handling? It's been years since I've used a linux desktop environment, so I'd be coming to it with navigational/file-handling skills in terminal alone.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Should work out of the box, if you want a better experience I would definitely recommend an AMD gpu. Nvidia drivers are a huge mess on Linux since Nvidia actively refuses to support Linux

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What? You just have to install the proprietary drivers, they work perfectly fine. I get that if you don't want any proprietary stuff NDIVIA is not the best experience (opensource drivers are not good because of lack of support) but I'd hardly call that a huge mess.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you want to use Wayland without having to tweak lots of things or use weird hacks then Nvidia isn't an option.

Also in my experience the open source drivers nowadays have better performance and support than the proprietary Nvidia drivers

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not the open source nvidia drivers. They don't support reclocking so there's no way to get any useable results for gaming (and if not for gaming, why use an nvidia gpu anyway? Compute isn't supported in nouveau anyway).

Edit: typo

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I was talking about Mesa not the Nvidia open source drivers. I should have worded it differently

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The open source Nvidia drivers are part of Mesa. You were talking about RADV and RadeonSI, the open-source AMD drivers in Mesa.

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