Look long story short, what i expected to be a short install ended up being a 5 hour manhunt for an issue that resulted in needing a closed source instead of open source nvidia driver. Shes all switched to linux, and if her trial goes well and i don't end up tearing my hair out doing tech support. I may switch over as well, probably a different distro though.
One thing i will say though, even though the state of gaming has drastically improved since my first foray into linux, the "fine details" of gaming have not. Fuck me the first time i looked into the modding scene on linux and how much busywork that took, that just killed a little bit of my soul. Even trying to get her game open, we first had a xbox game controller bluetooth not connecting issue, my bandaid was to do a wired connection, and sitting here just now i hear a laugh and look back and see this in her game. What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error, but the game works. Its rough, but it works.
It'll be interesting to see how this goes, thats for sure
This is where the problem really began. though afaik, you can get a version of the bazzite distro with the closed source nvidia drivers already installed, so did you select a different one? Nvidia gave me nothing but issues when I was trying to migrate to Linux though. Ever since I switched to AMD, it's been smooth sailing.
Shes the only one in the house with nvidia, which tbf, has been just perfect for her needs up to this point. I'm just worried what might happen when i finally get her a new motherboard (long story short, it was my old one, i was splicing a 500ft ethernet cable, and didn't realize 250 ft away the other end was still plugged in)
If you spend any amount of time at all in various Linux meme or Linux newcomer communities you’ll quickly see that this is one of the issues plaguing people switching over.
That’s not a dig at you but to make you realise how big and well known the issue is. The reason it persists is because nvidia refuses to play nice with Linux or an open source environment, presumably for monopolistic licensing issues.
The issue is large enough that there’s even a fairly famous video of the creator of Linux specifically giving a very vocal ‘fuck you nvidia’ middle finge specifically for their efforts at hindering cooperation with Linux at all.
My partner and I are running Kubuntu, both with Nvidia cards, and haven't had any issues that aren't solved by using the ubuntu-drivers tool.