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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (27 children)

I wish I could. My gaming rig has an nvidia gpu and linux support really sucks because of the proprietary driver situation...
Steams new gamepad ui is a slideshow running at 5fps and I loose HDR so I have to remain on Windows for now. Every other desktop I own is UNIX tho.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (14 children)

My gaming rig has an Nvidia GPU as well, and it runs mostly without any problems (I've had to manually update drivers a couple of times) on POP!_OS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Can you try to run the big picture/ gamepad UI and see if it lag? This my only real issue blocking me from switching back

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have a RTX3070 and I never felt any lag using big picture/gamepad UI in Ubuntu/Manjaro/Endeavour.

But you can Dual Boot and only use Windows for gaming. I did that initially

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Manjaro/Endeavour.

Curious about why both?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Started on Manjaro but I was annoyed when they let their SSL certificates expire several times so I moved to EndeavourOS. Now I am using NixOS, and I probably stay with it for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nix is a good tool, but don't think I'd personally want to give up the Linux FHS for it. Manjaro's management does indeed have a somewhat concerning track record.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they're distro hopping. People often jump from Manjaro to Endeavor to get a more clean Arch experience. This is what I did too, on my laptop a couple of years ago, and I've stayed on EndeavourOS since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you ever run into upstream bugs, or Idk, package version incompatibilities, on Endeavour? The idea that the 2-week package grouping and delay might help avoid those is one of the main things that drew me to Manjaro.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I did run into a few package version incompatibilities 1 or 2 times, but it was rare to have issues. I think I had more issues on Manjaro tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I personally haven't had any problems with package incompatibility on Endeavour. Anecdotally; on Manjaro I had two system breaking updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got a RTX 3080 myself and no matter what distro I used the new gamepad UI lagged so much that it was unusable.. maybe this has been fixed, I haven't tried it in a while.
Also are you using x or wayland?

But you can Dual Boot and only use Windows for gaming. I did that initially

Sadly I wont switch until this is resolved. But I use this rig only for gaming and navigate through gamepadui so I dont have to see Windows lol.
I use UNIX (Linux / macOS) on all other hosts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Use X not Wayland on NVIDIA GPUs. I'm running nixos on my laptop / desktop and big picture works without issues on both hosts.

4800hs + 1650m / 13900kf + 3070

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was using X in all of those. Now I am on NixOS and Wayland, but haven't tried steam/big picture yet.

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