I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones.
2 days later, no game has been played yet. We can’t even get steam to start. I even installed Arch on a sata ssd I donated just to verify the pc parts actually work (took less than an hour). It took 1 and a half days to even get the Windows 11 installer to get past like the 3rd screen.
Fucking fuck. Dealing with all this fucking bullshit is far worse than not being able to play a few trashy anticheat pay 2 win games. The anti Linux circlejerk is real.
NVIDIA? My condolences, good news though is that open-source NVIDIA drivers will be coming over the years (NVK and the open-source kernel packages), so expect it to get better.
I’ve never understood the issues people have with Nvidia on Linux.
I’ve got a 3080, powering 3 monitors, using EdeavourOS, running the closed-source drivers. Genuinely zero issues so far, and yet everytime I mention it I get a bunch of alleged know-it-alls telling me how terrible my experience should be lol.
If you get a good experience doesn’t mean it will be a good experience for everyone. It’s not as bad as it was some time ago but it’s not all cotton candy. (I use a 1060 on Linux btw)
Maybe its just marketing to give those hope, that ditched Nvidia because of closed sourced drivers.