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I'm not sure what fan issues you were hitting, but I've been gaming on linux (with nvidia on manjaro) for the last couple of years just fine. Steam/proton has made so much possible that wasn't before.
Can't recommend manjaro btw. EndeavourOS is my new go-to.
Wild. Maybe I did something wrong but I tried finding a simple interface to set fan curves and most places I found were terminal-based, and as much as I love the terminal, I don't like it for things like fan curves.
Also for OS, last time I went with Pop!_OS and I have that on my laptop now, but I'm not that picky. I just liked that Pop!_OS had drivers built in for Nvidia.
I do plan on trying again, but my #1 priority is standing up this Poweredge R720XD I have sitting behind me. Server racks are too expensive.
To be clear, I haven't messed with my fan curves on linux, I've just never had an issue with my fans being on "full blast or off".
I know manjaro and endeavour both have tools that handle proprietary nvidia driver installation, but I've only tried manjaro's so far (
mhwd). It works fine, but running updates are a bit of a manual chore. Completely defeats the purpose of the tool imo.Ah okay, I get you now. When I said "full blast or off" what I meant was using the tools I found, I could either turn them on or off, I couldn't find the granular controls to set like, "at +10 degrees go to 25% power" type thing. And again, maybe I was doing it wrong, but I'm pretty fluent with Linux and just had no idea what I was doing.