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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have (had?) A win10 machine for gaming with a nvidia 1080 for the past ten years since gaming wasn't performant enough for me on Linux. Nouveau wasn't cutting it fps wise and the nvidia drivers were a nightmare if you dared to alt-tab or expected more than 20fps.

I bought a mid tier (radeon7600xt) from AMD and it was (I am not kidding) plug and play. And I don't mean the Microsoft blue screen presentation plugnplay.

Natively I got performant 3d fps (glxgears must be celebrating its 100th birthdaynow) and thanks to valves wine fork it was even easier to get more demanding games up and running. Before icouldn't even run portal.

Thank you AMD for doing something right where nvidia is obviously screwing up.

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[-] TheAnnoyingFruit@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I've had a similar experience. When I had a gtx 1060 6gb I had lots of issues and then purchased a 6700xt and have had an awesome experience. To be fair to nvidia, they have been improving their driver a lot as of late and the opensource community has as well with NVK. As the comments show on linux it always seems that everyone has very different experiences. Perhaps this is because of the segmentation/diversity of linux being many different types of linux distros and software versions etc...

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