☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Linux Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish • 10 months agoLinux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, and it's all thanks to the Steam Deckwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1372arrow-down118cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.party
arrow-up1354arrow-down1external-linkLinux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, and it's all thanks to the Steam Deckwww.pcgamer.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Linux Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square56fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.party
minus-square@xuniL@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink1•edit-210 months agoIf you want to use Wayland without having to tweak lots of things or use weird hacks then Nvidia isn’t an option. Also in my experience the open source drivers nowadays have better performance and support than the proprietary Nvidia drivers
minus-squareChewylinkfedilink1•edit-210 months agoNot the open source nvidia drivers. They don’t support reclocking so there’s no way to get any useable results for gaming (and if not for gaming, why use an nvidia gpu anyway? Compute isn’t supported in nouveau anyway). Edit: typo
minus-square@xuniL@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink1•10 months agoI was talking about Mesa not the Nvidia open source drivers. I should have worded it differently
minus-square@entropicdriftlink1•10 months agoThe open source Nvidia drivers are part of Mesa. You were talking about RADV and RadeonSI, the open-source AMD drivers in Mesa.
If you want to use Wayland without having to tweak lots of things or use weird hacks then Nvidia isn’t an option.
Also in my experience the open source drivers nowadays have better performance and support than the proprietary Nvidia drivers
Not the open source nvidia drivers. They don’t support reclocking so there’s no way to get any useable results for gaming (and if not for gaming, why use an nvidia gpu anyway? Compute isn’t supported in nouveau anyway).
Edit: typo
I was talking about Mesa not the Nvidia open source drivers. I should have worded it differently
The open source Nvidia drivers are part of Mesa. You were talking about RADV and RadeonSI, the open-source AMD drivers in Mesa.