Comment on 98% compatibility
megopie@beehaw.org 2 months agoAre you using steam and proton, or Lutris and wine? I’d suggest trying the other if one isn’t working. That’s helped me in the past
Comment on 98% compatibility
megopie@beehaw.org 2 months agoAre you using steam and proton, or Lutris and wine? I’d suggest trying the other if one isn’t working. That’s helped me in the past
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was trying both, everything was just really bad frame rates and stuttering, and a few things wouldn’t run after installing specifically Linux marked games on Steam. Back on Win10 everything is running like butter.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I’d guess your graphics drivers are the issue in that case. Sounds like it was probably kicking all the games over to the integrated GPU.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Certainly possible, I really wasn’t sure what drivers to use, tried the default and the first option from Nvidia and had about the same results.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I got a laptop recently with an AMD GPU, and installed Ubuntu on it, and the first time round I got the AMD drivers working, but every boot the discrete GPU and the integrated GPU would change their device IDs (e.g. gpu1/ gpu2), so Steam would end up launching games on the integrated GPU half the time. I got frustrated and installed Windows, but found out that you can’t buy Win10 anymore, so got Win11 and hated it so much I went back to Ubuntu. Second time around, I found a thing for setting the GPU in the launch options by GPU name, and that has fixed it.
Linux is not ready for average consumers if they have to install it themselves, but neither is Windows; most people buy a computer with the OS preinstalled, and never have to deal with driver setup; the Win11 install had a bunch of driver issues too.
SteamDeck is such a huge revolution because it’s really the first time that a company has made preinstalled Linux machines available in a way that average consumers don’t have to go looking for or pay through the nose (cough System76 cough).
If someone like Dell or Lenovo (or hey, even System76 or Framework) could get their laptops in-store at BestBuy, with everything pre-configured and ready-to-use, that would be Linux being “ready” for the average consumer.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 2 months ago
If you are still interest (100% understand if not) Bazzite and Pop_OS both have nvidia specific distros with the drivers baked in. Makes things a lot easier. Pop is Ubuntu and Bazzite in Debian. Pop has been my daily driver for 2 months and have not missed windows.