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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] traches 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PooShooter: Toilet Invaders

Oh good, I was waiting for that one

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gotta love an obscure game can be playable in Linux 😎

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

If diarrhea is so great, why did they never make a diarrhea 2?

This game:

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

My son would enjoy this

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proton is amazing! Most of the games I want to play are as good l, or better on Linux.

[–] Aurenkin 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

💯 I use Linux as my daily driver and don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. It's come such a long way! Still not perfect but it's really incredible

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

since I quit playing multiplayer games due to toxicity there is really nothing I miss from windows

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

How is the current Nvidia driver situation on Linux? I wanted to give it a shot on my gaming PC for a long time now but was deterred by the various driver horror stories…

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

people always complain about nvidia drivers on linux, but personally my experience has never required anything more than sudo apt install nvidia-driver

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arch is similarly this easy. I think where I usually see the most people complaining is when a new shiny version of the driver has come out and they try to update manually, breaking system packages and borking their system.

I'm not saying I have personally done this before. Nope. Not saying that at all...

[–] FalseDiamond 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Returning Arch user (absent since 2008/9) here, using Plasma Wayland. Overall a positive experience but there's lots of little finicky things to setup, and I haven't tried using linux-zen like in my EndeavorOS work laptop, I imagine that's a bit more finicky with DKMS.

Nothing out of the ordinary for Arch thus far though, just manual configuration.

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

Cyberpunk, Witcher and Mount & Blade II won't boot for me on Nvidia. I have to use Windows in VM or dual boot for those games

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Running Arch and Steam on an HP Omen with 3060 GPU and have no problems. I do play older games tho.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not great for my use case but your mileage may vary I need very high res with 240hz which is only in beta drivers atm so it's very difficult to find a distro I can use without messing about

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

X11 and multi monitors is also a mess.

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

I also have a 240hz but it works fine? I've never heard of this, although I still hate the nvidia drivers for many things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a Plasma on Wayland enjoyer, running a 1080ti, and pretty much every bug I've encountered since I've started using Linux has been resolved. There's probably some stuff I don't know about, purely because it doesn't affect me, but it's been smooth sailing here

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

I've been using Linux full time on my desktop since 2019 and while I don't think I'll buy nvidia again, the experience in the meanwhile has been fine. The things I can do with my computer are much more limited, especially when it comes to Wayland. But assuming you're just using your computer like a normal person you can stick to Xorg and basically have a totally normal computer experience.

Personally, one of the worst parts about nvidia proprietary drivers with Wayland is that I cannot use the night light feature in Gnome, which makes my display unreasonably uncomfortable during night time usage. When will nvidia provide the necessary support for the thing that makes it work? Who knows.

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

Ancient computer and nvidia card here. Not sure what Gnome's nightlight is ultimately based on, but you might try Redshift or f.lux which - I assume - do pretty much the same thing.

I've used both and am currently using Redshift. f.lux stopped working for me a few years ago and I haven't bothered trying to find out if that was a fluke and whether it will work again now. Redshift uses geolocation by default, but that can be turned off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would bother but I have other issues with nvidia+wayland so I just stick to xorg, which seems to be the thing nvidia really supports.

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

tbh it's overblown. I have been holding off on wayland for this and various other reasons, but gaming on x11 with nvidia proprietary drivers is fine. The only difficulties I've ever run into is installing/updating the package using a distro-specific method. I've never hit a driver bug.

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

I recently switched to Linux for my daily driver. I picked Nobara. It installed, detected my card, and installed drivers. Pretty straightforward. That said, performance isn't the same. I have just been playing Elden Ring and I am getting the fps, but there's some stutter and screen tearing even with VRR active. Also, ray tracing isn't a default, you need to add some stuff to your Steam launch.

Overall if you are looking to switch, get a new drive and start Linux on that. Keep your old Windows setup. At least that worked for me. Now I only boot Windows to mod Skyrim since I haven't gotten that ironed out in Linux.

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

I’m currently using pop os with an etc 3070, and I haven’t noticed any major issues. I had some weird glitches on fedora because they use the open source driver by default, but using the proprietary Nvidia driver is totally usable. I even got ray tracing working on cyberpunk 2077

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

The drivers break in some way or another often, but you can recover if you are good w Linux.. if not stick with AMD.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the mean time for integration into SteamOS?

[–] jayandp 7 points 1 year ago

Proton updates are delivered through the normal game update system, so they're usually pretty fast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looks like it's already available

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

Build instructions: docker

nope.