Quoting: ArdjeYou can't RTX in AMD, but RTX is an NVidia proprietary API.

Just like CUDA vs OpenCL, this is so typical of NVIDIA to push their proprietary APIs.

I hope that this will not become the norm. I'd really hate to see the world when you would need to choose your games based on what vendor of GPU you installed.

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I'll do the unthinkable, and buy it when it comes out. :P

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I would have never guessed that DirectX will be used to enable gaming on Linux. I love it.

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Quoting: pingvinI would never buy an AMD product, ever! Why? That's because I know a little more about electronics than you and most of other people...

That is a very biased point of view in my humble opinion. There is more to purchasing decision than just getting the top of the line components. Price and price to performance ratio is also very important, as well as driver support.

I built my gaming computer (see my profile) exclusively with AMD components, and am extremely happy with it. Everything just works out of the box without me having to worry about kernel upgrades or installing drivers manually.

NVIDIA, on the other hand, almost always breaks with new kernels, switchable graphics is a hacky mess, no Wayland support, etc.

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Quoting: subThe rating doesn't tell me if my platform (hw + driver stack) will also provide the same experience.

You can type "mesa" or "nvidia" in the filter field on the report page for a specific game to get a quick overview.

Quoting: subIs the quality of support significantly different between NVidia and AMD GPUs (Mesa)?

Proton itself doesn't care much if you are running on NVIDIA or AMD, and graphics drivers for both are pretty good nowadays. But there can be exceptions, just like some native games have trouble running on open source drivers.

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It's almost like Epic are trying to undo everything Valve has done for us. Hope they run out of money before any significant damage is done.

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Great news rumors, wishlisted!

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Quoting: LinasI understand the importance of Steam Play and Proton, but is this really Linux gaming newsworthy? I personally don't think so, but I'd like to hear other options.

It is a game, running on Linux. Buying with Steam Play shows the developer a Linux sale.

You say you understand the importance...yet you made this comment?

Sure, all of that is true. But there are a lot of games playable in Proton (which is a good thing!), and this one is not special. The game itself or its developers literally have nothing to do with Linux. That it runs on Linux is purely due to external efforts.

But that is just like my opinion man. :)

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I understand the importance of Steam Play and Proton, but is this really Linux gaming newsworthy? I personally don't think so, but I'd like to hear other options.

EDIT: I've gotten more input than I expected. :O I see now that my stance was short-sighted, and that embracing Steam Play is inevitable. Linux has always been about do-it-yourself spirit. And making games run on Linux, whether the developer intended that or not, is certainly true to this spirit.

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Quoting: tonRSo GoL users... what's our opinions on this? For me, I think 8GB RAM on Linux are nearly to it's limit but still enough for at least 1-2 years...

I think the sweet spot is somewhere around 12 GB, but such configurations are neither common, nor well supported by hardware.

However I don't think you would see much difference by upgrading from 8 GB to 16 GB right now, unless you are constantly multitasking while gaming. 8 GB RAM and 4 GB of swap on a reasonably fast SSD is often good enough in my experience. Enabling zswap (add zswap.enabled=1 to kernel parameters) may reduce the actual swap usage while still being able to free RAM for active applications.

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