How well does proton work on Nvidia GPUs now days?
I’m really tried of windows as a whole and would like to get away from that ecosystem. There’s really nothing keeping me there other than I’ve been told gaming on Nvidia is still way behind, but that might have changed
From what Ive heard the issues with Nvidia on linux are less about proton not working and more about the closed source drivers being a little more effort to install, and causing issues with more bleeding edge and rolling distros because nvidia drags its feet on supporting the newer features and standards. Plenty of people use Nvidia on linux and it does come with benefits as well such as better video decoding and encoding, better work drivers, and since its not foss they can just support HDMI 2.1’s closed nonsense without having to worry about stepping on toes.
I dont use Nvidia so I cant say for sure but I feel like the solution to the typical “oh no I ran an update and everything is broken!” is to just use a stable/lts distro.
How well does proton work on Nvidia GPUs now days?
I’m really tried of windows as a whole and would like to get away from that ecosystem. There’s really nothing keeping me there other than I’ve been told gaming on Nvidia is still way behind, but that might have changed
From what Ive heard the issues with Nvidia on linux are less about proton not working and more about the closed source drivers being a little more effort to install, and causing issues with more bleeding edge and rolling distros because nvidia drags its feet on supporting the newer features and standards. Plenty of people use Nvidia on linux and it does come with benefits as well such as better video decoding and encoding, better work drivers, and since its not foss they can just support HDMI 2.1’s closed nonsense without having to worry about stepping on toes.
I dont use Nvidia so I cant say for sure but I feel like the solution to the typical “oh no I ran an update and everything is broken!” is to just use a stable/lts distro.
I have an Nvidia 2060 Super with Pop_OS driver version 535.xx(?), and I haven’t run into a game proton doesn’t work with.
To simplify what’s been said already, if your nvidia card is working on Linux in your system, it will work fine with Proton.
i have more choppiness on the desktop, booting takes longer, and a few more annoyances here and there.
gaming usually works well.
its not ideal and a few details are out of place but is perfectly usable. they have a better oss driver on the works too.
nothing but bad experience running an nvidia laptop though so be wary of that