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I have this, but in Windows 11. Iβm stuck.
Windows 11 will never touch my home machines, but I still need to use Windows for a couple things. Iβm so happy thereβs Windows 10 LTSC ioT.
TFW Windows drops everything you're doing to automatically install unstable updates
Best feeling ever.
Same here. I want to ditch Windows 11 so badly, but I tried Linux Mint and I lost half my frame rate in games. I guess if you use a Nvidia GPU on Linux then you're shit outta luck sadly, as I heard the reason is poor driver support. If I did something wrong I'll gladly try Linux again but I don't have high hopes it will work now :(
On my system I am using kde x11 instead of wayland for the same reason. Last time I tried wayland I was getting half of the framerate compared to x11.
At some point I want to switch to a gaming-oriented distros and see if it's magically better there.
Did you install the actual nvidia drivers or were you just using the default nouveau driver?
I tried both propietary drivers and the open source (x.org) drivers. All were lower FPS. Ryzen 9 3900XT + RTX 5080 for reference
You need to change to a newer kernel when you use Mint for gaming. It has a GUI for it.
But personally, I'd just install Bazzite instead, it has all gaming- related optimizations built in from the start.
Thank you so much!
nvidia drivers are good performance-wise, you should have installed the proprietary ones because mint comes with nouveau, which does not perform well at all. if you did that, let's talk about L3 cache. ironically gaming on low end hardware is worse on linux because apparently proton needs quite a bit of that cache. my previous cpu (9600kf) had 9 MB and it was hopeless, current one has almost 100 and performance is not an issue anymore.
btw pop os comes with proprietary nvidia drivers so you don't need to think about it all, but because they ship it with their half-done cosmic de, can't recommend it to newcomers anymore..
My CPU (Ryzen 9 3900XT) is a 12 core CPU paired with an RTX 5080. My CPU sucks for gaming and is meant more for workstations, so you might be onto something here...
100%, biggest performance upgrade I ever experienced for Linux gaming was upgrading to a X3D CPU.
Opensuse Tumbleweed is my way to go and I am pretty happy. Also do have an NVIDIA Card..
Tumbleweed and Nvidia Proprietary drivers worked really well for my games. There is Bazzite that's ready to go for gaming too.
Iβm just waiting for win 11 to fail catastrophically in me. That will definitely give me the time to install Linuxβ¦ checks notesβ¦ Debian?
Yep that's my plan, whenever my Win11 install becomes broken, I'll make the switch, laggy games be damned! Maybe we can install Arch so we can fit in with the Linux crowd and finally say "I use Arch btw"
What games specifically? Some distros require a bit more driver installation, so maybe that was part of it (was running an rtx 2070 super on linux until a few months ago on linux, didn't have any issues with frame rates). The poor driver support is mostly on laptops, as they sometimes have issues switching between integrated and discrete graphics.