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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by hx8 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:59PM (#48126677)
I know plenty of people that use Nvidia and Linux, and it's something I've done in the past. You just suck it up and install the closed-source black box drivers and get on with your life.
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by bee_rider on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @04:14PM (#48126881)
Although, eventually NVIDIA will drop support for your card and you’ll have an annoying situation. This happened for Pascal on Arch Linux a while ago. The 10X0 series are pretty old at this point, but then Linux shines on older systems too.
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by notnullorvoid on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @04:42PM (#48127279)
You can still use the old drivers they work fine. This also isn't unique to Linux, Nvidia's latest Windows drivers also don't support 10 series cards anymore.
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by Narishma on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @06:26PM (#48128418)
Unless the old drivers have security issues, then you're stuck with the nouveau driver which sometimes only has very basic support for some GPUs.
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by hx8 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:37PM (#48129132)
Is this the case for any hardware or are we discussing a purely hypothetical?
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by Narishma on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:52PM (#48137959)
I have an old laptop with a GT 240M that's stuck in such a situation.
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by kouteiheika on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @04:48PM (#48127360)
NVidia supports their GPUs for a really long time (unlike AMD, which paradoxically drops official support really fast; e.g. see their ROCm support). Anyway, by the time NVidia drops support for their current newer GPUs there's a high chance that NVK[1] will be ready for general use.

[1] -- https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/nvk.html

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