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There's still room for improvement, but Linux gaming has come a long way in a short time.
(lemmy.world)
I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.
Well even if the user doesn't really know what they're doing, things shouldn't easily break, that's just bad.
I'm not convinced this is a valid statement:
If he says his install is borked I believe him. If he says it's "just" because he tried to switch to 144hz on his monitor, eh...
Edit: Also sounds like nvidia binary blob driver. Odd to me that he didn't get the "do you want to keep these settings" prompt, and that it didn't revert when he didn't click yes though.
Setting any of my monitors to 4k or 144hz just resulted in a completely black screen that persisted through reboots. Only solution I found was to plug into a completely separate, lower resolution monitor.
No clue what caused it, but it’s not isolated to just op
Out of curiosity, nvidia blob driver also? (I, too, run the blob driver, but I'm just curious if it's a common denominator)
I think so. It’s been a while since I set it up.
Since I can’t remember setting up the proprietary ones, I’d assume it’s the blob