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Virual

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  • What problems can I expect using Linux (Fedora) with an NVIDIA GPU?

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  • Dishonest and unwarranted? What?

    They dragged their feet on wayland and tried to force EGLStreams for years, causing a ton of work for open source devs. Their drivers on linux are still significantly more annoying to install than AMD or Intel and still use proprietary userspace drivers. This all and more is the definition of earning their bad reputation.

    You know what's dishonest and unwarranted? You trying to twist my words and imply I compared them to other manufacturers when I didn't. More than one company can rightfully earn a bad reputation, and ATI definitely did as well. Nvidia was indeed better for a long while, and then earned their bad reputation over the later 2010s and early 2020s.

  • What problems can I expect using Linux (Fedora) with an NVIDIA GPU?

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  • As long as you're using modern drivers, such as 570 or later (preferably 575), your experience should generally be fine.

    Nvidia rightfully earned their bad reputation on linux, but over the last year or two they've put a ton of work into improving it, specifically in wayland support.

    One of the last major open issues is DX12 performance. DX12 performance is kinda all over the place depending on your hardware, game, and game settings, but you can generally expect around a 20% performance hit to DX12 games compared to windows. DX11, opengl, and vulkan games perform about as well as windows. Dx12 performance on Nvidia has been a known issue for years and Nvidia was silent on it, but just a few months ago they finally publically acknowledged it and claimed they were working on it. In my experience, Nvidia typically pretends problems don't exist until they actually decide to fix them, so we can probably start expecting improvements to DX12 performance soon.

    I've been exclusively gaming with Nvidia on linux (CachyOS) for about a year now and my experience has been satisfactory, so you should be fine.

  • Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025

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  • Well, I started using their repos for their x86-64-v3 optimized packages and builds of popular packages from the AUR. Later I started using their kernel because it pulls in upcoming features and is compiled with optimizations like ThinLTO and AutoFDO and has a more advanced scheduler. I also like how Cachyos comes with things like zram pre-enabled and scripts for things like zink and NGX. It's basically just a ton of small things like that, some that I don't even know about yet, that makes CachyOS really nice and easy to use.

    https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/

  • Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025

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  • I've been using it for a while now, and it's genuinely so good. Before this I was using EndeavourOS which was also a great distro, but I realized that I was basically putting in work to do things CachyOS does out of the box, so I switched and it's been great.

  • What is the meaning of life?

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  • Linux gaming hardware/software

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  • Linux gaming hardware/software

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  • Nvidia 575 beta drivers fix the freezing issues with gamescope.

    Also, the performance hit on Nvidia is only in DX12 games. Vulkan, OpenGL, and DX11 (and older DX) all perform similarly to windows.

  • Fedora Kinite removed Windows boot loader

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  • I've actually had a good experience with ALVR lately, specifically the nightly version. WiVRn (Monado) has gotten pretty good too. You might consider testing vr on linux out again if you haven't recently.

    https://lvra.gitlab.io/

  • Still the best YA series

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  • Most of Percy Jackson took place outside of Camp Half Blood, unlike Harry Potter, which takes place mostly at Hogwarts, so it's not surprising that Hogwarts got more detail. Also, Camp Half Blood had like 50 people in it unlike Hogwarts that had hundreds, so naturally it'd be less noteworthy.

    Edit: I just checked and only 6 of 22 chapters of The Lighting Thief take place at CHB.

  • Roast my aliases!

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  • They sorta do. Flatpak user install puts shims in ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/. You just need to add it to your path.

    I'm pretty sure flatpak system installs are at /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/ so you'd just add that to path.

  • TitanFall 2 at 3$

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  • The desktop app is called "EA App" not "EA Play" which is where the confusion is coming from. "EA Play" is the game subscription service that's like gamepass.

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  • McDonald’s earnings, revenue miss estimates as consumer pullback worsens

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  • From the article:

    “Industry traffic has declined in major markets like the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Germany. In several markets, we also continue to be negatively impacted by the war in the Middle East,” McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said on the company’s earnings call.

    So it does seem to be working to some extent.

  • This week in KDE: DMA fence deadlines and lots of bug-fixing

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  • Plasma 6 is currently in beta, so it really isn't meant to be used for anything other than testing. I have it installed on arch, and honestly it's good enough for my use with wayland, but you will definitely will run into issues. I also use Nvidia, though, so I'd probably have more issues than you will.

    Overall, I only recommend it right now if you can roll back or if it isn't that big of a deal if your install breaks.

  • Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s

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  • Plex does support FLAC. It's transcoding to reduce data usage. You always have the option of playing the original, I'm doing it right now.

  • Best lemmy client for android

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  • It's a good app, but it also hasn't received an update in two months.

  • We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN

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  • The IP address that a request is coming from can absolutely cause captchas to be triggered. If the host is seeing a lot of bot activity from your IP, it'll do that. That and blacklisting is why Mullvad rotates IPs.

  • We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN

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  • PIA and Mullvad should have equal speeds because they both have 10gbps servers and wireguard. Both PIA and Mullvad use ram-only servers exclusively. As for search engine captchas, I never get them with Mullvad. The main issue with PIA is that they were bought by a questionable company that previously developed adware. You can read about that here. Personally, I would never use a privacy tool that is owned by an ad company, even if they claim to have changed. I used them up until the acquisition, then switched and have been extremely happy with Mullvad.