In this video, I reveal why Microsoft ended Windows 10 support in October 2025? The answer is simple: they want to rob you of your digital sovereignty. They won't be happy until each and every one ...

In this video, I reveal why Microsoft ended Windows 10 support in October 2025? The answer is simple: they want to rob you of your digital sovereignty. They won’t be happy until each and every one …

  • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    I wanted to, but modern games seem out of the question for me with my RTX 3080. The Nvidia drivers just aren’t there yet. I’m likely going to just tolerate Windows 11 until my next build, and make a point to get an AMD GPU next time.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      6·
      11 days ago

      Why? The Nvidia drivers work fine for modern games.

      There is a problem with LTS distros like Ubuntu and Mint etc. that don’t have fully up to date Linux kernels and thus can’t provide the latest Nvida drivers, but on more regularly updated distributions like Fedora I never had any issues with running games on Nvidia.

      That said, AMD GPUs generally work nicer on Linux, but having a Nvidia card shouldn’t hold you back from upgrading to Linux.

      • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        The performance hit in my testing was fairly signficant. I saw improvements with different versions of Proton, but ultimately I was looking at a 5-20% reduction in performance vs my testing in Windows 11 when playing more demanding titles. There were also frustrating anomalies where games would randomly refuse to start or would crash. Yes, you can certainly use an Nvidia GPU and get decent performance out of older titles, but there are still some fairly significant concessions that need to be addressed. This is well documented among the community.

        • poVoq@slrpnk.net
          2·
          11 days ago

          So you get 100 instead of 120 fps? Seems fairly irrelevant to me 🤷

          Anyways, if that is the level of difference we are talking about, then you will not fare much better with an AMD gpu.

          • AnabolicSpudsman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 days ago

            Except when I push a game and target 60 FPS, while dealing with stuttering and really bad frame times that I can’t reproduce in Windows.

    • the_q@lemmy.zip
      4·
      11 days ago

      Try Pop! OS with their Nvidia iso. It’s simple and works well out of the box. You should be able to have a great experience with your 3080 on Linux.