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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    One easy way OpenSUSE could be made 5000% more friendly to gamers with NVidia cards: PACKAGE THE DAMN NEW FEATURE BRANCH DRIVERS ALREADY. Post version 550 drivers have been out of beta for almost a year now and everyone who wants to be able play games on Wayland or use any moderately graphic-intense program without putting up with a bunch of flickering and glitches are still waiting for it. And don’t bullshit me with the “the production branch is more stable” excuse because it is not.

    Edit: It has now finally been solved. Version 570 is now available as of 30 Jan 2025.

    • Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌
      2·
      1 month ago

      Well said. Need things that works ou of the box, even if it takes to acknowledge adding non free during installation

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 month ago

        Adding the proprietary drivers wasn’t a problem at all even for a noob like me. They do a fantastic job of packaging a driver for us and are maintaining the repositories for it. The problem I have is that they’re hell bent on sticking to the wrong version of the drivers that lacks significant functionality while the proper drivers that solves that problem have been out of beta for almost a year and they keep ignoring them.

          • dooder10@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 month ago

            Yes, he is and I agree with him. If you look at any other distro that tries to cater to gamers, you will see that they use the new feature branch for the very reasons @DaddleDew mentioned. Outside of that I found that OpenSuseTW was a great distro that I could recommend to people…just not gamers on Nvidia. I ended up moving to EndeavourOS a few days ago and everything is running smoothly with the provided 565.77 drivers from the new feature branch. I might be back some day.