I find great the devs of the respective projects took time to actually tell how things work for gn. Sure, they get the attention because it's a known channel, but on the other hand, Microsoft would never give them this much detail and attention to actually understand what's happening
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I'm so glad he went with BazziteOS over a regular distro. Even though, I love CachyOS, but in this case we need to have more new users and we don't want them to deal with any potential issues.
CachyOS is great, but I put Bazzite on a laptop specifically so that anyone in my household could use and maintain it. It's not for everyone, but it's a good use case for anyone who wants to set it and forget it.
Also its probably a lot easier to handle for performing testing on equal conditions through the tests for all their cards. Sounds like ideally they want to freeze all their versions for at least a quarter of a year or more
I use CachyOS and it's been more or less plug and play. Some next fest demos haven't worked (i.e. B.C Piezophile) but whenever that happened I just moved on to a different game and put it in the "later" folder to see if time will fix it.
Serious games hardware testing channels like Gamers Nexus is a great progression. It brings Linux more into the mainstream while also putting a spotlight on driver deficiencies as well as weaknesses in the OS. How far we have come since the PopOS DE being removed by LTT.
looks like they've learned a lot since the previous video
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Watched it last night. It’s a bit of a novelty, but it showcases that with some planning, Linux can be a compelling gaming OS.
Switched my gaming rig over a few weeks ago (Fedora 43 with KDE in my case). The games I play have generally performed better than on the same hardware under Windows 11. I'm fortunate in that the only multiplayer game I play is Counter Strike 2, and Valve has a vested interest in making sure that their anticheat works with Linux.
In the past week or so I've played Cyberpunk 2077 with AMD FSR4 support, CS2, and GTA IV with the fusion fix mod (this one runs ridiculously better than it did on Windows) via Steam, and Fallout London from GoG through Heroic Launcher. The hardest part of that was just configuring the wine prefix for Fallout London to be the same as the one Fallout 4, since it needs to share a bunch of the original game files. I've also got my Epic account hooked up through Heroic Launcher, but haven't tried any of their games yet. I mostly just have whatever they were giving away for free for the past few years on that service.
Really, gaming on Linux has improved in massive leaps and bounds over the past few years. It is unrecognizable compared to even 5 years ago.
it's impressive how much work they put into that video; they deserve it.
Not sure of exact windows comparisons, but 5090 had problems, and I don't think amd is ahead of nvidia by as much on windows.
There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers. I simply did not know it was getting this bad. Also, I find very interesting the nvidia "open source" bit got the criticism it deserves (is just not open. There was a transfer of responsibilities, and one small part got open)
There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers.
"Right now" meaning every year for the past decade or two.
It's always something with Nvidia drivers. Performance+stability is more the exception than the rule.
That said, AMD drivers have a bad rep too. Personally I've had zero issues since I switched to AMD but experiences seen to vary a lot from what I've read.
Before that, I don't think I ever got through a full year without at least one weekend lost to troubleshooting Nvidia bullshit. CUDA is a pain in the ass even on Windows.
All my experiences with amd gpus have been fantastic, their drivers work beautifully and when they have even a slight issue it's been problems with protocols adoption and whatnot, never the driver.
It's such a contrast to the dogshit experience I've had with all the nvidia gpus I use, I really can't think of a reason except cuda that a Linux user should get a nvidia device.
I hope when the people adopting Linux now start building their next pc demand for nvidia noticeably shrinks. Or maybe they'd be bankrupt by then because of the ai bubble crash
AMD winning by far on windows if you factor value into the equation