Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux

Re:Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux by geuis on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:14PM (#45740533)

I have a pc I built when the 2080 TI came out. How is Linux support for the supporting drivers for those cards today? The machine is still more than powerful enough for my needs but I haven't used it in a couple years because Windows really is just complete garbage. I'd like to be able to take advantage of new to moderately old hardware without dealing with Windows.

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Re:Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux by ludamn on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:39PM (#45740774)

If it helps I used to use a gaming laptop for work that had a RTX 2060 mobile version, I was able to run some recent games like Elden Ring (including mods & online play), and some older but still demanding titles like Witcher 3. All of this without tinkering too much on a oob Ubuntu LTS install (I later switched to popOS because I don't like snaps that much).

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Re:Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux by geuis on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:06PM (#45741393)

Someone else recommended PopOSin other comments. I pulled up the page but haven't looked at it extensively. In what ways is it different from a recent Ubuntu LTS install?

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Re:Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux by rocky1138 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:49PM (#45741280)

You will be absolutely fine

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Re:Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux by jaydenmilne on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:05PM (#45741387)

1070 TI works perfect on Arch for the past ~6 months with latest drivers (better than Debian stable!). This card is old enough that only the closed source drivers are supported, but it seems to work fine.

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Re:Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux by TimBurman on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:29PM (#45749167)

I've been running a 2080 TI with AMD 5600x on Linux Mint Cinnamon for three months 24/7 with no graphics issues. Previously ran the proprietary nvidia-driver-550 but now use the nouveau open source drivers. There are five choices for Nvida drivers either open source, closed or open kernal (up to 570/580 now). This was a complete switch off Windows 10, which I've only had to boot twice in three months, to transfer some data.

Every game I've tried on Linux was either gold or platinum on ProtonDB and ran fine so far. WINE worked for running a couple non-game apps. Lutris is another way to run programs but I haven't needed it yet.

Definitely try it if you have a machine sitting there. There is so much support for Linux and Mint on the web it was easy to answer any questions I had setting things up.

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