Congrats, nerds.
(I guess I have to include myself in that)
Loooooooooooool
It was me guys! I got the poll last week and I am pretty sure my Linux Mint 22.2 pushed it over 3% !!!
Username checks out!
Congrats dood
I would say the next biggest hurdle that Linux gaming has to overcome besides market saturation is the compatibility with Triple-A multiplayer games and getting major developers on board. Franchises like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Rainbow Six Siege make up a large percentage of the hard-core video game player base and are incompatible with Linux due to their Windows level cornel anti-cheat or similar issues.
Yup. Some are doing well (like Microsoft with Halo, surprisingly…), others are actively denying doing anti-cheat on Linux. Here’s the website to track them:
We only just got AAAA gaming, and you’re taking about 9A gaming already?
There, I fixed it. But we all know that such terminology is nothing but a marketing gimic. And any such AAAA games has been over budget and underwhelming.
I switched over to Nobara Project 4 months ago and am not looking back! Have tried CachyOS, Bazzite, Mint, PopOS and liked Nobara the best
Could you swiftly describe what makes you prefer nobara over the others?
It comes with eveything for gaming and multimedia work pre-install, the 2 thing I use my pc for. Codecs, steam and proton, Da Vinci resolve, etc. Flagship version uses KDE. There’s a nice little app manager. Really easy installation process. It’s a fedora spin-off so it follows the same release cycle, usually updated within a few days. Updates use to be a bit complicated, breaking drivers, etc. but it’s much more stable these days. There’s not a huge community, basically discord and reddit, but people do try to help. Usually you can follow the instruction for fedora for any tricky installation. Great distro overall.
Looks like that might be my next try. I haven’t had much luck so far :(
I have a lot of drives and nobara comes with a auto mount manager that proved to be very useful. The update manager works great, it by default makes backups with updates to fedora.
It seems they have made the OS extremely user friendly with the ability to still customize.
Is there GTX 1080Ti support?
Yes. You have access to both the official, proprietary Nvidia drivers (difficult for the community to improve or configure but best for gaming), and the open source “Nouveau” drivers (which I would consider more “Works for Tails and for a full FOSS ecosystem”, but horrible for games).
No need to visit Nvidia’s website either - you should have 3rd party driver installers built into your distro (and can upgrade/downgrade as needed).
Nvidia 9, 10-series support is quite poor. Your experience at best will still be worse than AMD, Intel, or more modern Nvidia cards running the nvidia-open kernel modules with the latest Nvidia drivers.
I want to game on Linux too but can’t because nvidia removed gpu target temp feature on Linux for my potato gpu.
how is nouveau running for your gpu atm?
are you in the 9/10 series limbo?
I have a mx250 laptop, and nvidia removed the ability to set the desired temp and it runs on overclocked freq on Linux so as soon as I launch any games, my gpu reaches to 94°C and I can set desired temp only on windows.
