Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

  • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    2 days ago

    On AMD, it’s not uncommon for games to perform better than on Windows.

    For Nvidia, games almost always perform worse than on Windows.

    • Vikthor@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      Well, no surprise, AMD’s cooperation with Linux/Mesa/etc. devs is longer and deeper than Nvidia’s. In fact, when Linus Torvalds was asked about how cooperative Nvidia are, he gave them the finger.

      • kopasz7@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        For all the flak they (rightfully!) get, a 1st party open source nvidia driver is in the works.

        Altough it’s only the userspace part and it’s not compliant (yet?) to be upstreamed into the kernel. It is still something.