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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Considering a majority of people use Nvidia on their desktops, they'll be forced to jump through hoops with stuff as minor as setting their desktop session to X instead of Wayland (which is absolutely not ready) to installing a custom vaapi package to get hardware accelerated video playback in Firefox. With games and Nvidia say goodbye to a chunk of DX12 performance Then you have the majority of laptop users that have intel HD graphics laptops, ones made in the past 10 years will be fine for low end stuff, but they will take a hit because i915 shits itself with DX12 games and the new xe driver that handles it better is very new and only available on iGPUs made in the last 3 years or so? It is really only good if you have an AMD GPU which has absolutely pitiful market share, with the Steam Deck probably being the most popular AMD PC device people own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Great article and also outlines why I'm not switching today. I already have to deal with plenty of shit during my work hours, gaming is a way for me to relax and wind down. I don't want to think or deal with a sub optimal gaming experience, to then have to bug fix in my spare time.

You can say all the negative stuff you want about Windows, but it does run games well. The moment I can expect to have the same experience on Linux, I will switch, it's that simple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's fair. I feel like it's well worth it, but I do get a kick out of bug fixing and tinkering too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I was having some issues when I updated to Nobara 41 as Hell Divers 2 failed to load in the textures. So it still has hiccups.

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

No.

This is the same horse-shit conversation that's been going on since like 96.

Want to prove somebody is a tech fraud? Listen to them rec *nix for anything but what it's good at.

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