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Is it worth the trouble with an Nvidia card? (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 3 days ago by hellerphant@lemmy.cafe to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Hey folks. I’m a new dad which means my gaming time is at a premium, but I am going through a big cleanse of the enshittification era of the internet right now, and Windows 11 is kinda giving me bad vibes.

Last time I tried to run Linux it was ok and worked the majority of the time, but ray tracing and a few games caused some issues. I was also using game pass which of course doesn’t work on Linux, so I dropped back to windows.

How is Nvidia life these days? I’ve got a 3080 and an AMD 9800X3D so it should be fine for most games I imagine.

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[-] ranslite@zonenranslite.de 4 points 3 days ago

Try Linux Mint or CachyOS, most will work out of the box also Nvidia graphics cards.

[-] hellerphant@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago

I heard that CachyOS is pretty good with NVIDIA so maybe that’s the best bet and just see if all my games I’m currently playing work.

[-] drangus@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Nobara with the nvidia build has been great for me

[-] ranslite@zonenranslite.de 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

~~Multiplayer~~ Games with anticheat in kernel won't work in any linux distribution, the rest is fine with proton.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's now only some games.

Most of the kernel anti cheats support Linux but it's up to the individual game developer to enable that feature.

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