I’ve been debating making the switch for a long time, but after spending like a week researching Proton, Lutris etc. on Linux, I decided to try it out and nuked my entire Windows 11 drive. :)
So far, every game I threw at it works perfectly fine, including Elden Ring & Cyberpunk.
I had to spend a little time troubleshooting some small issues but it’s part of the fun!
Specs are in the neofetch, my compositor / WM is Wayfire (Wayland) :)
Are you on Nvidia and if so how do you make it not suck? I feel like preformance has gotten worse not better over the years. The exact same games with the same settings preform much worse for me on Linux.
No unfortunately I’m not buying a Radeon I need the Nvidia for work.
Nope I’m full AMD. I’m not entirely sure how NVIDIA works on Linux. I just know it doesn’t work well with Wayland. And fair enough for not buying AMD. Personally, I would do some research, try some things, but I’m really not familiar with NVIDIA card I’m afraid :(
Switched recently and using Nvidia. It’s a headache either way but I’ve had less issues with Wayland than x11.
Yeah, I’m told NVIDIA is not a very fun experience :(
My dude, read the neofetch
The what? Oh the tiny ass text in the image on my phone that I didn’t see.
Yeah, guys. Can someone please share their experience with Arch and Nvidia? I’m looking to switch for quite some time now, because Windows is just a bloated confusion of an OS, but I always hear that Nvidia drivers are a piece of garbage on Linux. How true is this and can you do something about it?
I’m running Arch on my Tuxedo Stellaris 17 laptop with a 3070 and I have basically no issues except I haven’t managed to properly run Sway. But Hyprland and XFCE work great, and so do Steam games.
I’m in Nvidia EndevourOS (archbased) installed it with KDE X11, honestly didn’t see any issues with it, the only real downside is that you don’t have the profile manager per 3D app like on windows. Neither do you have Reflex, other than that everything works well.
Arch, i3, GTX 3080 12GB, and no issues. I’m holding off migrating to Wayland for the sake of full compatibility with all screen-sharing solutions.
I’ve never really experienced any issues pairing Linux with nVidia, so I have trouble personally relating to all the hate they catch. There have been a few times where the kernel and the nVidia driver were mismatched, which caused issues trying to start up Xorg, but that’s easily solvable.
Arch with a 3080 ti using the nvidia-dkms package. Had to set up some pacman hooks to rebuild init whenever Nvidia driver, Linux kernel, or systemd gets an update, otherwise the system doesn’t boot, and I’ve had to boot from the Arch iso, chroot into my install and then run mkinitcpio. So there was some slight annoyance there.
But gaming I’ve had little to no issues at all. Some games have performed better, some worse, but none of the games I’ve played have been outright broken.
It works just fine on Nvidia cards.