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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080/4090: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Performance

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Some caveats as someone who games on Linux (Wayland, so YMMV):

- lack of HDR support

- anecdotal micro-stuttering in games like CS:GO ...

- .. and 4:3 aspect ratio does not work

- many games require command line tweaks to start or work properly, including but not limited to; overriding binary paths to skip launchers designed for Windows, changing your GPU driver (RADV vs AMDVK), enabling features like DXVK_ASYNC (might make an unplayable game playable)

- you need a nightly mesa-git to play new games

- anticheats in most games are broken

- Steam requires a kernel with 32-bit emulation support to run, and has a lot of dependencies on such software

- you most likely need a GPU from AMD

Other than that, it's quite good! Software like gamescope is a real highlight, allowing me to toggle FSR even in titles which do not support it. This evens the playing field between Windows and Linux, and might even make it even! I removed Windows and beyond occasional FOMO on Tarkov and Call of Duty, I'm happy.

> - many games require command line tweaks to start or work properly, including but not limited to; overriding binary paths to skip launchers designed for Windows, changing your GPU driver (RADV vs AMDVK), enabling features like DXVK_ASYNC (might make an unplayable game playable)

Not if you're using Lutris.

> - you most likely need a GPU from AMD

I've been playing on Nvidia for years and it's pretty good.

until nvidia drops support for your card, then you are toast. I'm sure the 1xxx series is going to be axed very soon.

Haven't heard of the 4:3 issue before, what's the story there?

Real problem is multiscreen. It works sometimes, but most often it decides to work only on the leftmost screen, which is vertical on my setup.

Just use steam/Proton compatibility mode, it handles 90% of games just fine.

I keep a Win11 partition now for gaming. I make it boot right into Steam, bypassing explorer.exe. It’s great. It’s basically an Xbox at that point.

That sounds awesome. How do you do that?

You can modify the registry to change the "shell" from explorer to something else.

`HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon`, edit the 'Shell' entry (or add it) as a string pointing to another executable.

As much as I hate 11 the live caption support which works in games too not just with videos is game changing (lol). It's an awesome feature. Lot of games doesn't have subtitles on their own, and I personally know some people with hearing loss who use live caption in 11 ever since it's available. Maybe Linux too will have something like that one day.

>Maybe Linux too will have something like that one day.

Well, it only took Gnome 18 years to get thumbnails in the file picker, so ... yeah, one day that will happen as well.

There is this app [1] which works well but is English-only unfortunately. Still looks cool though.

[1] https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

Pretty sweet! Linux performing better in some ways and neck to neck in others, even when the benchmark applications themselves were largely made for Windows and windows only.

While this won't directly kill the Windows monopoly and their anti-consumer practices, I hope it boosts Linux to a point where the dependence on Windows becomes a mere drop in the ocean.

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