[slimsag]

> No. Not even questionable. If you have an NVIDIA GPU, You're on your own. Latest Valve updates for Steam client including normal and Jupiter bootstraps have broken gamepadui on NVIDIA GPUs, and if so, no support will be provided for you.

Bummer. This rules out 76% of steam users, according to their hardware surveys.

[rollcat]

NVidia on Linux is an unholy mess, and always has been (at the very least since 2004, which is my earliest memory of fighting it). It's true even on NVidia's own SoC (Jetson).

It almost feels like they're trying hard to make the experience worse for everyone: users, OS developers, app developers, hardware developers... I don't know what to make of it, if you want NVidia you should pick an OS other than Linux (I've heard FreeBSD actually works fine), if you want Linux pick a GPU other than NVidia.

[slimsag]

I tried PopOS! recently and nvidia GPU worked 100% fine out of the box, without doing anything.

[rollcat]

When projects like Sway only enable NVidia support behind a flag named --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia, I have sincere doubts that a different gift wrapping will change anything.

[attentive]

Does it do video hardware decoding in the browser? - I tried it and it didn't do it on nvidia.

[smoldesu]

That description is pretty hyperbolic. The SteamOS UI (eg. the Steam Deck-looking part) is very broken on Nvidia right now, but the actual gaming part (eg Proton and the Steam launcher) works fine. If you just want to play mouse-and-keyboard in desktop mode, recent Nvidia cards are generally pretty cooperative.

[slimsag]

Well, I'm not smart enough to know if it's hyperbolic but it's a pretty damning statement right there in the README. Certainly enough to turn me away from ever trying it on one of my machines.

[smoldesu]

Your loss.