• Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    i run dual-boot on my PC, these days i’m only switching over to windows for gaming since nvidia GPUs don’t get a lot of support on the linux side nvidia doesn’t go out of there way to support linux as much as AMD does

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      1 year ago

      What kind of support are you missing? I run Linux exclusively with an Nvidia card and see regular driver updates (not as frequently as the kernel, for example, but still).

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        1 year ago

        I watch lot of HDR content on my PC with the HDR signal being sent to my display TV instead of having to fall back to tone mapping. Last I checked HDR wasn’t working on Linux. Been checking in on it for several years, but it always seems to be being worked on but not ready for release.

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        1 year ago

        Is Ray Tracing and various DLSS features available out of the box now? Last I looked into it they were still a bit unstable / hackable to get properly setup if they worked at all.

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        1 year ago

        i didn’t phrase it too well; what i meant was that nvidia doesn’t support linux as much as AMD seems to.

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      1 year ago

      nvidia GPUs don’t get a lot of support on the linux side.

      First time I’m hearing about this. What do you mean? You get regular, automatic driver updates and they work… what is missing?

      Older drivers for older cards are also available, although this may depend on the distribution rather than Nvidia.

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        Vulkan is basically unsupported by nVidia on anything before the 20-series on Linux. My 1060 6GB can only manage around 4-5 FPS at 1080p in some games as a result while others work totally fine. In addition, the drivers aren’t open source, so no one can go in and fix that problem.