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by simoncion 448 days ago
> ...driver update issues...

Are these nVidia drivers? If so, there's your problem. nVidia on Linux has always been a shitshow of varying degrees (and based on my investigation over the years, I've found that the majority of the problems people say they have with xorg are problems that go away when you use AMD or Intel hardware).

Anyway, Steam works great for me on Linux, and I don't use the various cheating tools that are popular in online FPS games, so E_NO_REPRO, WORKSFORME.
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hatthew 446 days ago
In my experience, there were no linux drivers that work as well as the first-party drivers on windows
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simoncion 445 days ago
If you're talking about out-of-tree drivers (which are generally ones that you download and install separately... the Nvidia closed-source driver is one such example), then I can believe that.

If you're talking about in-tree drivers (which will be the overwhelming majority of drivers running on the system [0]), well, pull the other one, kid.

[0] Unless you've done the thing some folks coming from Windows get confused and do, which is go searching for and installing drivers that you don't need, because they don't know that the good ones are already packed in.

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hatthew 445 days ago
Last time I tried gaming on linux it explicitly made me choose between two options. One was the nvidia driver and one was not, and both had problems.
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simoncion 444 days ago
So out of the fifty-to-a-hundred-or-so drivers loaded on your system one gave you problems... and that one was the Nvidia driver, whose closed-source version is known to generally be just absolutely godawful in every aspect other than "provides maximum performance, when you're able to get it installed and working", and whose opensource version is known to be an enormous crapshoot (on account of it being reverse-engineered with zero help from Nvidia).

That sounds about right.

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hatthew 444 days ago
Yes. That's my point. They didn't work well, and caused issues when trying to game on linux, whereas windows was fine in that respect.
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simoncion 444 days ago
Nah, mate. You said:

> In my experience, there were no linux drivers that work as well as the first-party drivers on windows

I said:

> So out of the fifty-to-a-hundred-or-so drivers loaded on your system one gave you problems... and that one was the Nvidia driver...

and you agreed.

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