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NVIDIA driver 580.95.05 released as the latest recommended for Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[โ€“] dom@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Last time I tried Linux for gaming was over 10 years ago. I know there is proton now which makes it easier etc. But even then I would constantly have issues with sound or drivers or some other thing that made it less "plug and play" than windows. Has this been improved in that time?

I have a laptop thats 16gb ram and Intel iris xe but has chugged since it was forcibly upgraded to windows 11. I want to try Linux to see if day to day things would be more performant, but I dont want to add a bunch of headaches because of it

Edit: thanks all for the great responses. It sounds like I should give it a go

Edit2: I dove into pop os and really happy so far. Better performance doing regular browsing etc. Had to mess around to get Linux howdy to work, but otherwise very seamless. Much much improved since the last time i used Linux.

[โ€“] TheWhetherMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I recently switched from windows to fedora for my main pc, only had one issue with nvidia drivers (most likely due to user error, it was my first Linux experience), but since fixing its been almost flawless with gaming. I've only had 1 instance of mouse bindings not working properly, but a quick restart of the software that controls it fixed the issue

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