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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What? I have a 2060 and shit runs fine. Nvidia's drivers have improved a lot since the 2010s.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    What? I have a 2060 and shit runs fine.

    Of course. There's always the ones for whom everything runs fine. These are the ones who aren't affected by bugs in power management caused by Nvidia drivers because they use desktop PCs and not laptops. These are the ones who still used X11 five years after the rest of the Linux world moved to Wayland and when Nvidia drivers got good enough for Wayland, it's always "see, how much Nvidia’s drivers have improved a lot since the 2010s!!"

    Nvidia is lagging years behind on adopting newer technologies in the Linux graphics stack.

    Edit: These days it's "HDR can cause game-breaking graphical artifacts".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I didn't say there are never any issues I said it's fine. The idea that "success stories" are only amd is silly. 90/100 times unless you're using bleeding edge hardware or pathologically fussy you just hit play and stuff works. 9 out of the remaining 10 times you tweak a proton version or wine setting, the other time it's a driver bug.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Sometimes you don't know what you're missing though.

    As an example, I figured out (on a 4900HS CPU/2060 GPU) that Stellaris and modded Rimworld game ticks are on the order of 40% slower running linux native, and still slower (but less dramatically so) in Proton. There was zero public information on this until I tested it myself.

    As another example, modded Minecraft is dramatically faster on linux.

    They run fine, yeah, but one's game settings are kinda capped by CPU performance in all these titles. I don't have to know the difference, but would like to, hence I'm wondering about CP2077 from the opposite side: am I missing out on a boost from linux?

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