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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have (had?) A win10 machine for gaming with a nvidia 1080 for the past ten years since gaming wasn't performant enough for me on Linux. Nouveau wasn't cutting it fps wise and the nvidia drivers were a nightmare if you dared to alt-tab or expected more than 20fps.

I bought a mid tier (radeon7600xt) from AMD and it was (I am not kidding) plug and play. And I don't mean the Microsoft blue screen presentation plugnplay.

Natively I got performant 3d fps (glxgears must be celebrating its 100th birthdaynow) and thanks to valves wine fork it was even easier to get more demanding games up and running. Before icouldn't even run portal.

Thank you AMD for doing something right where nvidia is obviously screwing up.

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[–] Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Personally I've never had an issue with nvidia on Linux, it's also "just worked" for me. My gripe is the lack of vaapi support

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

For me it is not about 'issues'. It is just so much simpler and convenient. I also never had problems with nvidia, but then i used a AMD gpu. Oh my. What an experience. Everything including hardware acceleration in the browser etc. just worked on my barebone Arch install.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Some applications didn't work correctly with nvidia + wayland for me, AMD solved that.