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PC Gamers Abandoning Windows 11 for Linux with Higher FPS & Fewer Interruptions
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I'd love to roll back to Linux but my GPU and the drivers don't get along very well.
I have a 3080 and run Mint without any real issues, what sort of problems have you found come up?
I have a 3080 with two HDR capable high refresh rate monitors and a year ago when I switched I tried Pop and Fedora both of which just launched all games to a black screen. Installed arch which finally let me run most proton games but every couple of sessions I get FPS spikes and jittering and have to restart the games. Going to get a 9070XT and bazzite soon
I can't say i've tried either of those distro's but I chose mint because I heard it had good support for NVIDIA cards etc and wanted something easier to get into.
There was one game I have ran which I do have an issue with freezing in but I know this particular game had the same issue for some people on windows as well (though not me previously) so I don't think it's specifically a linux problem.
I've only had issues with audio on mint due to a mistake in one of the config files which didn't allow it to recognise my sound board correctly but was fixed with a few minutes of googling thankfully.
I've heard bazzite is good for gaming so I hope it works well for you.
Which GPU do you have? There are plenty of distros that work just fine with Nvidia.
GTX 1080.
Might be an issue with my setup. I run HDMI + DVI. My BIOS refuses to work with DVI for some reason.
Might detect it as two monitors, hence why it runs at full boost clock constantly. Didn't find a fix for it so just gave up and went back to Windows where it works just fine.
Also doesn't seem to detect DVI without the HDMI connected. Might be my GPU is faulty.
/shrug
Gaming distros should have that sorted out of the box.
Buy AMD, I suppose
Amd doesn't necessarily work better than nVidia. It can completely break your system if you're unlucky.
Care to elaborate?
There's a well known bug in amdgpu that will freeze your display or your whole system. Just search "amdgpu freeze linux", apart from the usual shills it's not a secret.
I don't get any indication from the search that there's a single unfixable issue, seems like various crash/freezing issues being reported over the months. I've only seen an issue where I needed to restart my system once in the year or so I've been on Linux, and that seemed to just be linked to one game (that I've since played without issue).
This is also the second time I've seen someone with a vague reference to an amd issue that is described in a way that sounds both profound (breaks for system) and mundane (by making it freeze once in a blue moon). And instructions to do a search that will give results but the implication is that they are about some massive single issue when the search term is going to give lots of unrelated results. Smells like disinformation to me, or rather trying to make nornal issues appear like massive ones.
Replace "amdgpu" with "nvidia" or "linux" with "windows" and there's still tons of results.
It seems to me that things like
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=9000+dGPU+series
Are a fairly good example of the problems that many people are having. Note they're not very random but tend to follow a distinct motif. The driver freezes the display or the system at random times. And if it's such a rare occurrence, I must be so very lucky.
I'm not saying that one brand is better than the other. Just that the endless shills saying that AMD is the Linux messiah are both tiresome and wrong. There can be, and are, many problems with AMS din Linux, just like there are with nVidia.