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Is it worth the trouble with an Nvidia card? (lemmy.cafe)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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Hey folks. I’m a new dad which means my gaming time is at a premium, but I am going through a big cleanse of the enshittification era of the internet right now, and Windows 11 is kinda giving me bad vibes.

Last time I tried to run Linux it was ok and worked the majority of the time, but ray tracing and a few games caused some issues. I was also using game pass which of course doesn’t work on Linux, so I dropped back to windows.

How is Nvidia life these days? I’ve got a 3080 and an AMD 9800X3D so it should be fine for most games I imagine.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

If you've already got an Nvidia card, there's no sense in going out and buying a new one just for Linux. Just make sure you choose a distro that explicitly supports Nvidia out of the box.

I started with Nvidia as well and then just got AMD at the next upgrade.