Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's Proton initiative

Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by phren0logy on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:19PM (#21849378)

I've been running PoP!OS (despite its stupid name) as my daily driver because it supports Nvidia drivers and all the CUDA libraries for deep learning right out of the box, as well as a pretty large number of sane defaults and preinstalled codecs, etc.

I was pleasantly surprised that Steam was a one-click install, and probably 90% of the Windows games that I have tried work without issue.

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Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by saagarjha on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:14PM (#21849570)

> Pop!_OS

It’s actually even worse: Pop!_OS.

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Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by saagarjha on Saturday December 21, 2019 @03:47AM (#21850381)

…I just realized I copied the same thing twice. The quoted portion should be “PoP!OS”.

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Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by slazaro on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:50PM (#21854061)

Open-source software never disappoints with bad naming... :(

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Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by jbj on Saturday December 21, 2019 @02:20PM (#21852834)

Ubuntu Mate also has nVidia support

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