How much is the speed drop from translation using Proton? Is it so big or just small? Hows the performance of cartoonish Windows only games? And whats your hardware and how much is the price? I’m sorry but I cannot test it myself because I’m still on my mobile. Can you also tell about how many games are compatible with Proton? What about non-popular games?

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    6 hours ago

    I don’t get the hate against Nvidia GPUs… i have been using Linux for 3-4 years on PC and Laptop with RTX 3000 and 4000 series and it just works. Even with Cuda. Apt or pacman just give you the right driver (havent tried other package managers…) I understand there were problems, but is it really deserved nowadays? Just go with whatever gives you the best price/performance?

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      4 hours ago

      That has been my experience too, having run Linux on different diy PCs from gtx970 to rtx3090. Everything has just worked.

      So an acquaintance’s son asked for upgrade advice and I told him to get a rtx5060 because that would give him the most performance on his limited budget, without also requiring a PSU upgrade… And it turned out to be a nightmare to get it up and running. I spent hours to get it to boot and then to actually use the GPU, and the computer still freezes on shutdown so he has to hold the power button to turn it off.

      It could be the combination of rtx50xx, gigabyte motherboard and Bazzite, i.e. not necessarily only Nvidia’s fault but the computer worked fine while he had a gtx1080

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      6 hours ago

      Well that’s the thing, ampere gpus (rtx 3000+) with the open kernel nvidia module is super solid on wayland now. Anything under rtx 3000 sucks.

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        5 hours ago

        I use a 1660 on fedora and have never had issues with GPU drivers, so like ximtor, I’m not understanding to problems people have. Maybe I lucked out, maybe I started using linux/fedora at the right time, who knows?