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
Jap, I have a laptop with an NV dGPU and it’s still a bit hit or miss. And the perf penalty VS Windows is quite steep whereas in the red corner it’s pretty margin of error in most cases.
Are you using FOSS divers or the proprietary ones? How about power management, suspend, wake up etc?
Proprietary blob.
edit: there’s good advice in the comments for this post.
OK, thanks.
Based on those comments, it still sounds pretty rough. Are those the worst-case scenario, or should all Nvidia users expect that sort of struggle?
Its was fine for a couple fof months but the 575 broke everything for me. The 580 did not change the status quo so I just reverted to 570. 555 worked fine so it’s a last nuclear option. You’d think the first company in history to hit 5TUSD cap would have a competent driver team but, here we are… It’s a shitshow. In the eternal words of Linus “fuck you nvidia”.