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Linux is the only viable solution to this mess. And no it is not as scary as it seema
It's not fear, it's laziness and just general fed-upness of dealing with computers and the overwhelming complexity of everything nowadays. There's nothing fun or thrilling about computers anymore, it's a black box to me now.
Does Lemmy have a "Stallman was right" community? Or is that just all of Lemmy.
Most of it, yes.
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If you replace the c/ with ! it will become a clickable link that will take the visitor to their local instance's copy of that community.
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Still waiting for nvidia to pull their heads out of their asses and fix gaming performance on their GPUs under Linux before I make the jump myself. And no, I don't want an AMD GPU.
It’s fine. Not sure where you heard it’s terrible.
I know it's not terrible, but there is a performance disparity there that you can't ignore. If someone is spending $1000+ on a high end GPU I think it is fair for them to expect a level of performance that's a little better than "fine".
If by disparity you mean sometimes Windows is better and sometimes Linux is better. I have one of those GPUs. Give it a try before you slam it. Valve has thrown so much money into Proton that support is amazing compared to when I tried a decade ago.
Benchmarks are readily available, I have a 5080. Some DX11 and older games do run slightly better on Linux. But a lot of them don't. And pretty much 100% across the board DX12 games run 10-30% slower on Linux compared to Windows. Nvidia has even acknowledged the issue and claims to be working on a solution.
I'm just shocked Fedora is playing well with a quadro series card, and I'm not looking back. If there's some bottleneck, it's no larger than the one on my general experience with windows. Though I would very much like to be runnung a non-tainted kernel.
Yeah I understand that things have improved a lot. But it's the 10-30% performance hit in DX12 games that keeps me from wanting to dive into Linux as my primary OS on my gaming machine. If they can get that closer to parity with Windows, I'm all-in on Linux for life.