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Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by Mathnerd314 on Saturday December 21, 2019 @01:29AM (#21849952)
The AMDGPU driver is open-source and generally seem the best integrated with the rest of Linux; performance is comparable to Windows. The nVidia closed-source drivers also give performance comparable to Windows but have issues like graphics corruption with KDE on suspend (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364766, supposedly KDE's misuse of OpenGL). The open-source Nouveau drivers for nVidia are not really usable: the team has to reverse engineer everything and nVidia doesn't really support their efforts so it's rolling a stone up a hill.

Intel graphics are open source but they're mostly used on laptops, so I don't think the drivers support much beyond basic functions. I guess light games would probably work well with them though.

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Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by ahartmetz on Saturday December 21, 2019 @03:50AM (#21850394)
The Intel drivers on Linux are fine, they are very reliable and don't lack important functionality. The problem with Intel graphics for gaming is underpowered hardware.
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Re:Linux is now a viable OS for PC gamers, thanks to Steam's... by Mathnerd314 on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:24AM (#21851900)
I was looking at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics. There are quite a lot of workarounds listed which have the effect of disabling certain hardware optimizations. I'm sure the drivers work well for most people, since even the Nvidia drivers are quite usable, but they do seem to have some bugs.
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