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@andrewt This has never been a worry I’ve had in almost 30 years of using Linux personally and professionally.
Is this something about gamers and not people using computers for productivity?
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 @andrewt @sjuvonen For gaming there might be issues on nvidia but amd has been great to use with the open source amdgpu drivers for over a decade at least. Once something is working, it'll almost always work forever on Linux. Gaming using Proton via steam is seamless. Heroic launcher for GOG and Epic games is a community effort to create a similar experience for those platforms. Use gamemode (for example set launch option "gamemoderun %command" on steam) to have better graphics performance.  @cohentheblue @andrewt @sjuvonen i honestly prefer the nvidia drivers over the amdgpu now on the more recent versions >< (amd has been annoying me with its HDMI problems)  @sjuvonen @andrewt actually. We at work had some "problems" with the drivers for the thinkpad usb-c dockingstations. With my nvidia card I don't have any problems. But I'm not a gamer so maybe I just don't see the problems.  @sjuvonen @andrewt I was using Linux around the same time and I had tons of issues with drivers. I was able to solve almost all of them, but it was often non-trivial. A good portion of sound cards of that era for example were hard to get working--driver issues AND PnP issues. Hell, just getting online was a thing. I remember calling up my dial-in ISP to say their modem connection chat was sending html instead of login prompt and they all just drunkenly laughed. no this is more like "damn I need to get WiFi on this somehow, hm, let's go the quick route for now and get a dongle" you then proceed to plug it in and are greeted with an old and obscure realtek chipset that doesn't have drivers that work on any modern version of the Linux kernel |
@sjuvonen tbh I've not had much issue either, but then, I've mostly used prebuilt systems with well chosen hardware and a bunch of very standard input devices, I suspect these days the issue is mostly confined to Weird Stuff, so yeah, gamers and particular kinds of nerds maybe?