@Nebatunia they have! it's why we have Bazzite in the first place. valve focuses on their own hardware compatibility, which makes sense as they wisely made the choice to use amd video chips in their products. it's a lot of extra work to include nvidia alone, and some extra settings and support to include support for a wider range of pc hardware in general as the steam deck/machine can be and is slimmed down a bit by not needing that.
@Nebatunia there's a lot involved with everyone that makes a linux distro you download, install, and use, and it's nearly all volunteers and various company employees contributing to open source projects, it's not just one company like Microsoft. grab a spare nvme or ssd and give it a try sometime, I'd recommend Bazzite for you as it's very easy and oriented around gaming, as since valve's steamOS is open source, Bazzite is further modifying steamOS to be more compatible with all gaming PCs and not just valve hardware
@samtallic @ddmagnas i have been using nvidia and wayland on linux with kde plasma for years now and would love some professional writing about these things for my own reasons, too! but as for my personal experience, some quick answers for you two:
HDR - pain in the rear but kind of possible. questionable quality at high resolution or framerates unless you use displayport because the hdmi consortium are jerks. seems to be relatively rapid development on this, though.
VRR - support exists, though you're usually better off leaving it off
DLSS - works great, used to be kind of a pain but Just Works nowadays. it's gotten me a lot out of a sub-1k black friday laptop i got last year with a 4000 series nvidia card, and it's the only way to get good performance out of my 3080 ti destop playing one of my all time favorites, strangers of paradise final fantasy origins, because square enix cannot code (the windows version isn't any better)
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Re: Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance
@Nebatunia they have! it's why we have Bazzite in the first place. valve focuses on their own hardware compatibility, which makes sense as they wisely made the choice to use amd video chips in their products. it's a lot of extra work to include nvidia alone, and some extra settings and support to include support for a wider range of pc hardware in general as the steam deck/machine can be and is slimmed down a bit by not needing that.
Re: Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance
@Nebatunia there's a lot involved with everyone that makes a linux distro you download, install, and use, and it's nearly all volunteers and various company employees contributing to open source projects, it's not just one company like Microsoft. grab a spare nvme or ssd and give it a try sometime, I'd recommend Bazzite for you as it's very easy and oriented around gaming, as since valve's steamOS is open source, Bazzite is further modifying steamOS to be more compatible with all gaming PCs and not just valve hardware
Re: Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance
@samtallic @ddmagnas i have been using nvidia and wayland on linux with kde plasma for years now and would love some professional writing about these things for my own reasons, too! but as for my personal experience, some quick answers for you two:
HDR - pain in the rear but kind of possible. questionable quality at high resolution or framerates unless you use displayport because the hdmi consortium are jerks. seems to be relatively rapid development on this, though.
VRR - support exists, though you're usually better off leaving it off
DLSS - works great, used to be kind of a pain but Just Works nowadays. it's gotten me a lot out of a sub-1k black friday laptop i got last year with a 4000 series nvidia card, and it's the only way to get good performance out of my 3080 ti destop playing one of my all time favorites, strangers of paradise final fantasy origins, because square enix cannot code (the windows version isn't any better)