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Last time I tried gaming on linux it explicitly made me choose between two options. One was the nvidia driver and one was not, and both had problems.


So out of the fifty-to-a-hundred-or-so drivers loaded on your system one gave you problems... and that one was the Nvidia driver, whose closed-source version is known to generally be just absolutely godawful in every aspect other than "provides maximum performance, when you're able to get it installed and working", and whose opensource version is known to be an enormous crapshoot (on account of it being reverse-engineered with zero help from Nvidia).

That sounds about right.


Yes. That's my point. They didn't work well, and caused issues when trying to game on linux, whereas windows was fine in that respect.


Nah, mate. You said:

> In my experience, there were no linux drivers that work as well as the first-party drivers on windows

I said:

> So out of the fifty-to-a-hundred-or-so drivers loaded on your system one gave you problems... and that one was the Nvidia driver...

and you agreed.


Sorry, I'm very confused here. What's your point? Yes, at least one gave me problems, but specifically more than one gave me problems. Both graphics driver options did, and other unrelated drivers did as well.




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