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Re: Wayland Nvidia

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When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

Many of the replies completely missed the part about Nvidia, sigh . I unfortunately still see a lot of Proton bug reports that don’t repro on AMD cards. Hoping that improves soon, I’m sure Valve would love to tell hardware makers that Nvidia GPUs are supported.

Not seeing any issues with my NVidia card.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

#22
post #18

Meanwhile Grandma says: "what's a wayland?" How can anybody seriously argue Linux is an OS ready for ordinary users when you have to do crap like this? Complete delusion.

Linux isn't a single OS. It's hundreds of different and weird combinations.

There are Linux distributions that are better than Windows or iOS for grandma to use as well as distributions where you need to be an expert to do anything.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many of the replies completely missed the part about Nvidia, sigh . I unfortunately still see a lot of Proton bug reports that don’t repro on AMD cards. Hoping that improves soon, I’m sure Valve would love to tell hardware makers that Nvidia GPUs are supported.

I have been using Nvidia on Linux for years and am able to run 95%+ of my library on Steam.

That’s awesome! But not everyone’s library is the same, so YMMV. I regularly see problems with flight sims that are Nvidia-specific, for example.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

#26
post #18

Meanwhile Grandma says: "what's a wayland?" How can anybody seriously argue Linux is an OS ready for ordinary users when you have to do crap like this? Complete delusion.

Your grandma doesn't need to know what wayland is to use linux. This is an enthusiast forum for people interested in this exact topic.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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post #18

Meanwhile Grandma says: "what's a wayland?" How can anybody seriously argue Linux is an OS ready for ordinary users when you have to do crap like this? Complete delusion.

Your grandma doesn't need to know what wayland is to use linux. This is an enthusiast forum for people interested in this exact topic.

This post shows that she does, if she is unfortunate enough to own a device with NVIDIA graphics, because without this fix Wayland will be broken.

Of course, this is only one example of probably hundreds where an average user would have no clue how to fix their broken computer.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

#30
post #3

When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

Many of the replies completely missed the part about Nvidia, sigh . I unfortunately still see a lot of Proton bug reports that don’t repro on AMD cards. Hoping that improves soon, I’m sure Valve would love to tell hardware makers that Nvidia GPUs are supported.

I have an nvidia card on catchyos with catchyos proton and I have not ran into a single game that does not run, well ok some only walk, but that's also a problem on AMD.

I am excluding games that rely on a kernelmode anticheat.

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