So is mint Bad for newer machines?
Comment on Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoAs long as it’s a 3xxx or 4xxx Nvidia card honestly its just as good as Nvidia now as long as you arnt being dumb and trying to use Debian or mint or something that has a massively out of date kernel on a new laptop.
orochi02@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Emperor@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I had a 3060 and the support for wayland was just terrible.
Loads of games didn’t work on proton or ran terribly.
Moment I switch to AMD on Linux I have not had any crashes, and games run out of the box with good performance.
Just my experience, there is no real reason why most people need nvidia GPUs on Linux. The vram is small, and prices often don’t compete well with AMD.
CUDA and other media stuff is usually a strawman as most people literally never it. If you need that desktop with SSH is much better value for money.
happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What other GPU options are available for Linux? Or does gaming with Proton simply require a powerful AMD CPU?
Emperor@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
AMD drivers for linux are simply superior in the same class. See the new Gamer’s Nexus video. The 9070xt beats the 5090 not just once.
The CPU matters, but the drivers on AMD support linux much better.
If you’ve got the dough a AMD 395 with 128GiB is the best thing you can get for mobile linux imo.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hm. I’ve got an Nvidia card on Cachyos, and it’s all been fine so far.
I had an issue where an upgrade broke my drivers, but that turned out to be my fault from poor understanding.