I’m so glad he went with BazziteOS over a regular distro. Even though, I love CachyOS, but in this case we need to have more new users and we don’t want them to deal with any potential issues.
I use CachyOS and it’s been more or less plug and play. Some next fest demos haven’t worked (i.e. B.C Piezophile) but whenever that happened I just moved on to a different game and put it in the “later” folder to see if time will fix it.
Also its probably a lot easier to handle for performing testing on equal conditions through the tests for all their cards. Sounds like ideally they want to freeze all their versions for at least a quarter of a year or more
CachyOS is great, but I put Bazzite on a laptop specifically so that anyone in my household could use and maintain it. It’s not for everyone, but it’s a good use case for anyone who wants to set it and forget it.
Serious games hardware testing channels like Gamers Nexus is a great progression. It brings Linux more into the mainstream while also putting a spotlight on driver deficiencies as well as weaknesses in the OS. How far we have come since the PopOS DE being removed by LTT.
looks like they’ve learned a lot since the previous video
Not sure of exact windows comparisons, but 5090 had problems, and I don’t think amd is ahead of nvidia by as much on windows.
There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers. I simply did not know it was getting this bad. Also, I find very interesting the nvidia “open source” bit got the criticism it deserves (is just not open. There was a transfer of responsibilities, and one small part got open)
There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers.
“Right now” meaning every year for the past decade or two.
It’s always something with Nvidia drivers. Performance+stability is more the exception than the rule.
That said, AMD drivers have a bad rep too. Personally I’ve had zero issues since I switched to AMD but experiences seen to vary a lot from what I’ve read.
Before that, I don’t think I ever got through a full year without at least one weekend lost to troubleshooting Nvidia bullshit. CUDA is a pain in the ass even on Windows.
AMD winning by far on windows if you factor value into the equation
I find great the devs of the respective projects took time to actually tell how things work for gn. Sure, they get the attention because it’s a known channel, but on the other hand, Microsoft would never give them this much detail and attention to actually understand what’s happening
