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Sometimes I forget how awesome Linux Gaming is (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.

Sometimes I forget how awesome Linux Gaming is
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[–] 60 points 10 months ago (14 children)

This is upgrading your AMD GPU on Linux. If it were nvidia then it'd be just as long as the Windows part, from what my friends have said

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, literally just swapped nvidia gpus last week.

    Pull one out, pop one in, resume gaming.

    If you don't already have the nvidia driver or nouveau, you have to install that and make sure it isn't blacklisted. Reboot and done.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Lol every few months I get an update that causes something to fail in the nvidia driver. What? I have no idea, I've not bothered to diagnose, I just restore the last snapshot and wait until another driver or kernel update is out.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I would say by my experience, in order from easiest to most difficult, it's AMD on Linux, then Nvidia on windows, Nvidia on Linux. I haven't had a recent enough experience with amd on windows, but from what I hear its like you either install drivers then it works or you gotta do some crazy shit like op did to unbork something.

    I'd still rather deal with Nvidia on Linux than anything to do with modern windows if I have the choice, especially with the insane amount of anti-features+spyware they seem to be shipping it with these days.

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  • [+] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I just set up optimus for the first time the other day, what are you using for GPU switching thats making you reconfigure each update?

    Did you use DKMS modules so they'd update/reinstall with your kernel?

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Did you use DKMS modules

    And that's why Linux will never be mainstream lol

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    DKMS is actually to speed things up, to cut out the middle man of waiting for devs to update their own stuff to work with the newest kernels, it speeds up release cycle quite a bit... theoretically.

    In reality, whether it is a pain point or huge boon depends on your configuration and use case. On a gaming rig, you'd ideally have a bleeding edge system, where using all dkms would be a big boon for you, but would slow down updates. On an editing rig, you probably want something more stable, so you'd likely use a distro which holds back updates for longer like Debian. In this case, DKMS won't help because you're not updating your kernel often and it will end up just taking more space (but you might wanna use it anyway for convenience reasons down the line)

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support

    I personally thing DKMS should be the default, with users who want the less compatible option able to do so by installing from source.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Can confirm, in fact there is a reasonable probability that you won't be able to setup the shitty official NVIDIA drivers and the new card will run slower than the old one :(

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The blame really goes on Nvidia more than Linux. There's only so much you can do when the manufacturer won't support the card properly

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    And also the HDMI people since they don't allow drivers that use their official specs to be open source. So to use HDMI 2.1 you have to install a proprietary closed source driver.

    They could do it by having a post install blob add-on though so we can blame Nvidia for not putting in the effort.

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