I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

    • bruhduh@lemmy.world
      121·
      1 year ago

      It's trouble is in that it severely lacks features that it have on Windows, especially newest popular stream add-ons like voice and background blurring, troubles with Ray tracing and dlss, and most infamous problem is that Nvidia drivers absolutely would break your system updates eventually, and it can break your whole system Edit: source: i have laptop with Nvidia gpu

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      111·
      1 year ago

      The nvidia drivers can be a pain, and some distributions don't care about nVidia's support schedule and push a kernel update and nVidia will no longer compile.

      Also, the fact that a kernel update means the nvidia driver must recompile is a pain.

      I'm holding out hope for the open drivers (they basically moved all the proprietary bits to run on the GPU) to eventually mean that the premiere nVidia experience is already integrated at some point in the future.

        • jj4211@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Nouveau? I've not exactly had a very reliable experience, and as far as I can see Nvidia doesn't really help to ensure that works in a timely way or a reliable way.

        • ChronosWing@lemmy.zipEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          I'm talking about the nvidia drivers themselves, not some hacked together drivers by a third party that barely work.

          • uis@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            I talk not about hacked together drivers(GPL-shim) by a third party(Nvidia) that barely works too

            • ChronosWing@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Nouveau drivers are not made by Nvida? What are you even talking about? They are third party drivers that are not even fully functional because Nvida will not open source their own drivers for linux.

              • uis@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                I am saying that Nvidia here is third party. Nvidia is not kernel developer.