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Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The comments on this article might lead to good info.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-FreeBSD-2021

I expect a lot is possible if Wine and good Vulkan drivers are available.

This guy shows how to get Steam up and running:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpI7SU921A

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yup, I used to use FreeBSD and it worked okay. When I used it, the Nvidia drivers were better than AMD, but I don't know if the FOSS AMD drivers have been ported to FreeBSD.