It’s funny because in a lot of contexts I’m pretty anti-comma but here we’ve got a confusing headline that would’ve traditionally included the comma for clarity.
How well does proton work on Nvidia GPUs now days?
I’m really tried of windows as a whole and would like to get away from that ecosystem. There’s really nothing keeping me there other than I’ve been told gaming on Nvidia is still way behind, but that might have changed
Up until recently I was using a gtx 1060 just fine. Not sure about the high end ray tracing stuff though.
I’d say give it a try, I had a great experience. Never had any proton issues with an nvidia card my self. Just keep in mind nvidia drivers on Linux are notorious for being bad. If you choose an LTS distro or one that packages the drivers you’ll be fine though. Pop!_OS LTS with the nvidia drivers is what I ran.
It works great. It’s usually not proton that’s the issue. Iirc the drivers tend to lag behind a little bit and it really depends on your distribution’s maintainers for how quickly and seamlessly the newest drivers are made available. PopOS is one of the best(imo the best) for Nvidia support.
I had a 3070ti (that I sort of regret swapping for a 6700xt) that worked really well. I swapped because I bought into the myth that “Nvidia sucks on Linux” and I figured if my 3070ti was this good, then a Radeon card would be even better. I just traded small nvidia issues for more annoying Radeon issues and, for me, I got the bad end of the deal. I miss CUDA and the nvenc encoder. Radeons equivalents are 5 years behind it feels like and/or the open source driver that people rave about doesn’t support them, so you have to use the proprietary driver which isn’t as good for gaming.
All that to say, don’t let having an Nvidia card hold you back.
Yeah I just wish NVIDIA would roll out updated drivers more frequently. Would be nice to have ray reconstruction working in Cyberpunk for instance. There are also some issues with the DLSS implementation in Cyberpunk and the current drivers.
For work though I have no complaints. And if you’re a patient gamer who is happy to work through old titles or whatever between driver updates then you’re probably not going to be too distraught.
And of course if more people use Linux, driver support should improve.
Was running an RTX2080 on for a couple years until just recently when I gave the system to a relative. More stuff worked than didn't by far. As someone else said, it's been at the point for awhile where I just assumed anything I wanted to run would work. Not literally everything does, so if you have one game that you must have, it could be worth a google search to see what folks are saying.
I don’t know of anything about nvidia being “way behind”, apart from wayland support. The only case I can think of the top of my head where the bad wayland support comes into play is if you have multiple monitors with different refresh rates. But maybe even that is not an issue anymore with new nvidia drivers. Maybe others can comment on it as I no longer have an nvidia card to check.
Use protondb to check whether your games play well on proton. It shows each commenter’s system specs as well, so you can see if a game has issues on nvidia specifically.
One warning: don’t try to install software, including the nvidia driver, as you would on windows. On linux, you don’t go and download it from nvidia’s website, you get it from your distro’s package repositories, and you let it get updated automatically via your system updates. Depending on the distro you install, it might be as easy as checking a tickbox to automatically install “Additional drivers” or “Proprietary drivers” during installation.
EDIT: I assumed “way behind” to mean that nvidia is behind amd on linux. If you meant how much linux gaming is behind in general, that’s another story. Linux does tend to lag behind in implementing newer features like newer DLSS versions. If you’re worried about this, then perhaps you will get more information if you post a question about what specifically you care about.
I am this exact case and it’s getting better. A month ago I installed Arch on my Nvidia desktop and it had multiple problems: returning from sleep, really bad cursor lag hitches, video would freeze at random, applications would flicker, etc. Nowadays most of it is gone, unfortunately the really bad freezes after changing resolution on monitors are still there though
From what Ive heard the issues with Nvidia on linux are less about proton not working and more about the closed source drivers being a little more effort to install, and causing issues with more bleeding edge and rolling distros because nvidia drags its feet on supporting the newer features and standards. Plenty of people use Nvidia on linux and it does come with benefits as well such as better video decoding and encoding, better work drivers, and since its not foss they can just support HDMI 2.1’s closed nonsense without having to worry about stepping on toes.
I dont use Nvidia so I cant say for sure but I feel like the solution to the typical “oh no I ran an update and everything is broken!” is to just use a stable/lts distro.
I’d love a setting to change the default file manager. I always install Nemo and configure it to be the default but last I checked, it’s not a simple GUI setting like changing the default browser or email client or whatever. And then you end up with two programs called “Files,” which obviously isn’t ideal.
Would it be that much of a problem to have what app is “Files” be a simple setting? Maybe it’s way more complicated than one assumes.
My dream is that one day we will be able to assign default applications to the “generic” names in Gnome. Launch “Browser” and open Firefox (or chrome 🤢), Files and open Dolphin, Messages and open Elements etc etc.
Obviously I can do the same with custom .desktop files but it would be a nice flair to use the settings to just assign applications to those generic names.
Maybe they added this when I wasn’t looking. It’s been awhile since I did a fresh install of a Gnome distro. (I use Fedora for work stuff and I’ve learned over the years to leave my work laptop the fuck alone and distro hop on a personal laptop.)
It’s still a problem. And then once I finally set thunar as default, Firefox continues to open Nautilus. Removing Nautilus isn’t an option either since it’s a dependencie of something else.
I really hope choosing a default file manager woll be simple and always working at some point.
Yes and no. The setting affects the file manager, but things like “open/save file” dialogues will still use the Gnome file chooser, which is separate from Nautilus and not easily circumvented.
Firefox uses xdg-mime or xdg portals, depending on the configuration of the package. If you are using it as a flatpak, it will use portals.
Apps using portals will use the file picker your portal provides. This will usually be either the GNOME or Plasma file picker. Note that this file picker is separate from your default file manager.
It wasn’t about the file picker but the file manager that opens after clicking the button to open the folder a downloaded file is saved in. It was indeed flatpak firefox iirc.
It did work at some point but broke again… At the moment it works I believe (at least I didn’t get a call from my mom about the file manager being wrong again).
I find Dolphin wy better… But renaming & adding files to new folder is better on Nautilus, but as I don’t care much about renaming anymore, and Dolphin is quick enough to surpass the other feature, meh
The search on nautilus is probably better because a lot of gnome distros have the file indexer enabled by default, and that’s what nautilus uses, but many kde distros don’t come with the kde indexer, so dolphin doesn’t index by default.
I can’t be the only one who couldn’t care less about Epiphany. I have zero faith behind a completely random browser that’s just made on the side. What’s the point, who is it for? Firefox beats it on like every use case scenario. Waste of dev time imo.
Seems like a lot of these “performance enhancing features” simply ignored security principles or tried to sidestep them, only for the features to introduce glaring security hole in the overall ISA, forcing people to then sidestep the supposed performance features so that it never mattered to begin with.
Are Intel, AMD and others pulling a fast one on us for the sake of gaining positive benchmarks?
If they were held liable, CPU manufacturers wouldn’t use these crappy hacks to increase performance, which helps their bottom line. Now I’m a cynic, so I’ll say that they might’ve done this on purpose.
I went to DL it and try it out, and… dude, I hate Sourceforge. I know how privileged this sounds, but I’m not spending a half hour DLing something that I can DL in a minute and a half somewhere else.
“With the new Desktop Cube, you can switch between workspaces in 3D. Your app windows float off the desktop surface with a parallax effect, so you can see behind them,” said the Zorin OS team. “There’s also the new Spatial Window Switcher, which replaces the standard flat Alt+Tab and Super+Tab dialog with a 3D window switcher.”
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