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Those of you praising Proton, what distro and what gpu are you using? Are the days of nVidia bad, AMD good for driver support over?

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Nvidia has always had great Linux drivers, the main problem with them being that they are dkim based so every now and then things get a bit screwey when upgrading your kernel. Thankfully this doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to.

While I can't speak first hand for AMD as I've not owned an AMD/ATI card in decades I do know that AMD and Valve have dedicated Linux driver deveopers directly contributing them to the kernel and have heard nothing but good things (taken with a grain of salt because fanboys will fanboy).

actually AMD drivers are open source and works better that NVIDA proprietary blob.

You seem to be conflating open source and functionality. The proprietary Nvidia drivers are perfectly functional and maintain feature parity across Windows and Linux (minus HDR but that's not Nvidia's fault as HDR barely exists on Linux).

AMD drivers are open source but that alone doesn't make them "work better" than the Nvidia drivers.

I'm using ubuntu 20.04 and it's working great. I actually use it to play the game remotely from my linux desktop on my mbp via steam link. The desktop is currently using integrated graphic so I can only play indie games at the moment. I'm still waiting for my new gpu to arrive so I can't test any of the AAA game.

Funny thing is I sometimes use steam remote play to access my linux desktop since it's faster and has very little lag compared to VNC. I simply add nautilus to steam game library so I can launch it remotely via steam link, then press "super/⌘" key to access the desktop.

You may be interested in https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi... — AMD is on the rise (40% vs 56% NVIDIA), Arch based on the rise (39% vs 39% Ubuntu based), Pop!_OS among Ubuntu based, though I do not think there would be much difference among distributions.

I am not gamer anymore. I've had NVIDIA GPU, binary drivers were not pleasant experience, so bad that I've switched to Intel GPU. Today open source AMD GPU driver is a clear path forward, and it would improve with each release.

Have used both manjaro and ubuntu. Have used an nvidia gtx 770 and an amd apu on ryzen 4700. I'd say I've had a few issues with both, majority of problems can be resolved with a days worth of tinkering. Glad to have done that, have been casually gaming on mah linux for over 5 years.

Gentoo w/ nvidia driver; only driver problems in 2019-2020 I've had are "sometimes I need to wait to upgrade the kernel because the driver doesn't support it yet."

Ubuntu 18.04 with GTX1070. Used the drivers that came with the OS and I might go play some Hellblade in a moment

Arch, nvidia 980ti, using the proprietary driver. I have had a really good time with it.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with an RTX 2070 Super GPU.

NixOS with amdgpu. Works really well.

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