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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (30 children)

Seriously you can't have windows without having teams now?

I have a feeling when I finish rebuilding my gaming PC I'm not going to be a fan of using windows again...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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.

https://www.protondb.com/explore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

100% this, nvidia may be scumbag dickholes, but I've never had any problems with simple gaming on Linux with nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pop!_OS is often recommended as noob friendly OS for nvidia gamers https://pop.system76.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. I offer it to most of my friends who are switching and have Nvidia cards.

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