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RxBrad@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Seriously considering a switch to Bazzite on my actual gaming PC.
Me having a RTX3070 is holding me back, though. Maybe AMD will have a decent, not-too-stupidly-expensive card in the 9070XT. Really don’t want to spend more than $500-600 on a GPU. And I really don’t want to replace it until I can get something with at least twice the performance.
I literally started downloading the Bazzite installer on my PC just before heading out to work - will be installing it on a spare NVME and seeing how it goes tonight hopefully!
Bazzite does have a Nvidia-specific build, I’ll report back in a day or two how I go with my 3090.
I’m using a 3080 and I do seem to have the occasional problem that my ATI using friends don’t, nothing that has prevented me from playing.
Example: Recently, gamescope hasn’t been working. So I’ve been using xwayland instead. Basically I don’t get HDR or VRR, but it’ll be fixed (it may already be fixed because I’m on a rolling release distro (Arch, btw)).
I haven’t, yet, run into a ‘This game doesn’t work because you have an NVIDIA card’. On the other hand, I can run local AI trivially easy because my card supports CUDA.
Nvidia GPUs work well on normal Linux distributions. Ubuntu, for example.
I have a 3070 ti, I am using Cachy Linux. How do you feel held back? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m curious about your experience. My experience has been great and I’m confused what the fuss was about. Maybe it’s easier now that Nvidia drivers are open (or at least fauxpen)? Idk.
My concern is basically the usual “Nvidia hates Linux”.
Also:
docs.bazzite.gg/…/Hardware_compatibility_for_gami…
Nvidia GPUs are currently in beta with major caveats
I run Bazzite on a 3070 and it works well. The thing that is not supported yet is the gaming mode that basically turns your pc into steam deck mode as far as I understand it. It would be cool since I run my pc on TV only and mainly game with a controller. What I do is run Steam on startup and set it to start in big screen mode. Until a few weeks ago I used Linux mint and that was much more work with drivers for controllers and stuff. Bazzite is so good so far, seems to be exaxcly my use case for a TV Linux gaming pc.
ogeist@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Dude, I have an i5 8600k with a RTX 3070, using Arch. There is nothing to fear, yes I had issues some time ago when I had the GTX 1080 but not any more. I’m even using Hyprland. Give it a try on another with another disk.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Funnily enough I had precisely one issue out of a GTX-1080 running Linux Mint, and it had little to do with Linux.
I went from attaching two 1080p monitors by HDMI to one that attached by DisplayPort. The computer ran fine…until I rebooted it. The machine failed to POST. Turns out I could boot the machine with an HDMI monitor attached, attach the DP monitor, and it would run fine, but it would fail to POST with that monitor plugged in.
Turns out it was an issue with the card’s firmware that would cause the card to fail to initialize with a monitor running a recent version of DP attached, the BIOS would fail to find a video adapter and thus fail to POST. It wasn’t a driver issue, it was a firmware issue. And of course Nvidia provides no means of updating graphics card firmware in Linux, so the easiest solution was to rip the card out of the machine, carry it to a Windows computer, download and run the updater, and re-transplant the card.
I still game on that system; it’s my home theater PC now.