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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

linux support really sucks because of the proprietary driver situation.

Stop listening to everyone online. The driver situation "sucks" because of ideologies (which I happen to agree with), but from a functionality perspective Nvidia's Linux drivers are solid.

The same driver you install is the same driver they use in their half a million dollar DGX AI systems. And those systems don't run Windows. Only Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those drivers are stable, but older. I get errors playing new games because my drivers are always 5-10 versions older than their windows equivalents.

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

That could be a consequence of the distro you're using. I'm going to guess you're using Ubuntu and maybe an older LTS.

If that's the case you can switch to use the Nvidia driver PPA. It'll give you the latest drivers.

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

He's right about the new gamepad UI for steam though... it's completely unusable in Linux from my experience (the old big picture UI worked fine)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're having that issue, but I have three systems with Nvidia cards (1080ti, 2060 laptop, 1660 laptop) that I use Steam on and the new big picture mode is entirely usable. It's not perfect, and does hiccup someone's, but it works fine.

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

I'm guessing the laptops are using Optimus and are maybe running big picture using the integrated graphics, hence being smoother on them. 1080ti I don't know, maybe it's just in issue with RTX cards or something. iirc it was to do with HW acceleration but not sure

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

Nope. I made sure the Nvidia card is used for everything.