There has never been a better time to game on Linux

Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by zeagle on Friday January 12, 2024 @04:40PM (#38974504)

Strong disagree and this is from someone that used to use FreeBSD and now dual boots Fedora for my laptop and runs Debian for servers. I mean it took me more than 15 minutes to figure out how to get a fresh nobara 38 install to simply boot last time I tried this. For the sin of having an Nvidia 3070 graphics card I had to look up to where to change some settings in grub to boot to be able install the drivers and boot properly. My fedora running framework laptop can't detect one of the external monitors in my lenovo usb c dock if it is plugged in when it boots or after sleep. No lay person consumer is going to waste their time diagnosing this stuff.

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by SR2Z on Friday January 12, 2024 @04:45PM (#38974564)

So don't use Fedora - use a distro that actually has a large, user-focused team working on it. Pop_OS COMES with NVIDIA drivers.

You can't pick an enthusiast distro and then complain when you have to be... well, an _enthusiast_.

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by zeagle on Friday January 12, 2024 @04:50PM (#38974615)

I appreciate that. I did try ubuntu, pop, and fedora beforehand and had the same issue. I didn't want to make my original comment too long or to appear incidinary. It just didn't boot and my research led me to nobara. If you have any thoughts why it wouldn't work with a i7-10700k, rog b560-a, a 3070, 4k monitor via hdmi or dp, and a dual booting m2 ssd would be curious.

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by ActionHank on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:18PM (#38974892)

Nvidia drivers are a bit iffy sometimes, I will give you that. That said most major distros have builtin support and Arch has great docs for getting things going too.

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by zeagle on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:08PM (#38975899)

Unfortunate. Although it inspires me to try again this weeekend with the latest Pop!OS.

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by justinclift on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:41PM (#38976839)

I have a 3070 presently, though running on Ubuntu 20.04. The Nvidia 535 series drivers were dodgy, kernel hangs during install (!).

The earlier series (4xx through to 525) were pretty solid though, and the latest series (545) is pretty solid too.

Any idea if you might have been unlucky and installed the 535 series drivers last time around?

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by zeagle on Saturday January 13, 2024 @11:37AM (#38981572)

Good question. I was having those types of issues and I recall issues with booting the usb stick via EFI too. I did install the latest Pop!_OS and it works last night so clearly better this time around!

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by justinclift on Saturday January 13, 2024 @08:47PM (#38986616)

Cool, good luck. :)

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Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux by zeagle on Saturday January 13, 2024 @11:33AM (#38981516)

I have to issue a kudos-where-it-is-due update: I installed the latest Pop!_OS 22.04 last night, and didn't have to play with drivers or installer freezing. I did find the monitor plugged in to HDMI was being discovered sometimes so switched to DP and works. Will see how gaming goes and citrix workspace when I have more time!

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