I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it’s like this is the way everything was always meant to be.
HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.
I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).
No ragrets.
No regerts.
Team red 4lyfe (again).
Damn I’m a tech illiterate person but got a 6600xt with a ryzen 5. Should I also be running Linux? The only thing I know about it is I can’t play some games which kind of makes me hesitant.
Do you want a seamless and high performance gaming experience? Then no.
Would you take a hit in performance for a more elegant OS and more freedoms? Then yes.
Look up the games you have or the games you’re worried about on Proton DB:
https://www.protondb.com/
Then you can see whether you will lose anything with the switch.
This was actually really helpful, of course there’s no way of knowing if games releasing in the future will work or not, but it does seem like a lot of my games will work with the exception of Destiny 2.
Destiny 2 is a funny one because there actually was a Linux version that worked fine, and it was (and maybe still is) what Stadia and all those other remote gaming platforms were running. The system just bans you if you use Linux and aren’t any one of those corporations. Which isn’t to say that it technically works on Linux, but that all these greedy companies are making our lives more miserable just to extract every last penny, while gaslighting us in the process.
Yeah I’ve heard it’s more of bungies fault for not taking the time to authorize it than anything else.
Most of the games you lose access are not worth imo. LoL, fortnite, valorant. I do miss Apex
You’re not wrong. I’ve just heard it’s any game that uses battle eye. I know Destiny 2 and marathon don’t work for that reason. Not that im playing marathon lol
I tried to play Marathon and realized it doesn’t support so refunded lol. There are so many fun games nowadays if they dont want my money, ok.
Yeah marathon is genuinely a fun game, but I also stopped playing just because I have no friends to play with and when I group with randoms they tend to want to get into fights constantly, and I prefer to run solo and stealth it, because I’m bad at fps on controller (I bought it on ps5 because my oc was broken at the time.) also fuck bungie for destroying the Destiny franchise.
Yes, you should.
-Sincerely, a Ryzen 5 7600X and Radeon 7700XT user running Linux Mint with a KDE Plasma DE.
What version would you recommend? I only know about proton which seems to be best for running most games. I know I’ve read where winds meet runs on proton
Not OP, but proton isn’t Linux it’s the software that makes games work on Linux, largely you don’t need to mess with the version of it (unless you’re into tinkering or something is behaving weirdly) as for which distro, that’s kind of a spiritual journey lol, find the one that clicks beat with you. I prefer Arch, but have heard good things about PopOS, Mint, and CachyOS. Of those CachyOS is the one that was specifically built to game, but ultimately the difference between distros of Linux is (for an average person) basically just what package manager you use.
Interesting. I appreciate the in depth responses I’m getting here. Looks like I’m gonna have to do a lot more research before I feel comfortable switching. I’m low key terrified I’m gonna ruin my pc entirely trying to uninstall windows lmao. Luckily I do I have a flash drive with windows 11 installed on it in case of emergencies.
Yes, Shark03 said it best. Proton is built in to Steam, so as long as the Linux distro you choose (Mint, Ubuntu, CachyOS, etc.) can run Steam, Proton will work. I’ll also mention ProtonDB.com here; you can use that site to search for a game to see how much tinkering (if any) you’ll need to do to make your games work. For my game library, I think almost every game runs with no tinkering, maybe selecting a specific Proton version at most (a drop-down menu).