Well they published their source code.

It’s not as permissively licensed as usual open source projects, but I would argue that in the true sense of the phrase, this falls under “open source”.

I am running Manjaro KDE on two general purpose PCs, both with Nvidia graphics, both without problems.

On my living room gaming setup (also Nvidia), I am running Bazzite, which also runs very nicely.

Are you using multiple screens and have something open on another screen that periodically rerenders? I have had a similar problem when having Ksysguard open on a second screen - every time the graphs rendered a new time step, my game lagged. Only happened on Wayland. My solution was to run the game inside of gamescope or to close the offending application.

Yes, you can either add external games inside steam and set their compatibility options to use some version of proton or use proton through lutris or manually.

Chrome […] is spyware. Don’t use chrome.

Oh it happens on Windows too, but wine adds some overhead, so you have less headroom on Linux. Same goes for DXVK / VKD3D - they add some CPU overhead.

Where are you getting these numbers? I have a 3080, used a 1080Ti before, and though my last direct comparison was a while (like a few years) ago, I had more like 3-5% difference in FPS in the games I tested, at most 10% in RS2 Vietnam, but this ultimately turned out to be a CPU bottleneck. I would assume (and, reading reviews on reddit, this seems confirmed) that the drivers have mostly gotten better since then.

When was the last time you used an Nvidia card under Linux? There are no performance issues compared to windows, haven’t been any in YEARS.

If by that you mean ray tracing, no. Nouveau can’t and won’t ever, NVK might but it will take time.

As someone who has been using Nvidia and Linux nearly exclusively for many years, I am interested in the aspects you think their drivers suck in. I have had literally no problems with them in the past 2 years, performance is incredible, Wayland just works, …

Just not true anymore. Must have been years ago that you used Nvidia on Linux. As someone who has been using Nvidia GPUs under Linux (Manjaro KDE mostly), recently also under Wayland (since plasma 6), I can attest that the experience is very good, no “tons of small issues”.

Still though, since OP wants no proprietary drivers, he has to go for AMD, since nouveau is dog shit.

The app will complain if the server has an incompatible version. Have had it happen a few times, but usually two or three minor versions difference should be okay.

Integration at a level a browser can’t offer. Most importantly, imo, a browser can’t bind global keyboard shortcuts for websites. So push to talk, mute keybinds, … don’t work in the browser version.

Or any global shortcuts (i.e. to mute oneself) for that matter. Pretty useless in a gaming context because of that imho

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Ahhh

I don’t understand what you are telling me

Oh okay, not a good look.

Probably due to automatic extension reviews by Mozilla.

Sad that it happened, but at least it doesn’t impact the actual uBlock, only the lite version for which I honestly see no purpose in Firefox anyways.

I’m on 550, never had any problems with using ComfyUI or sd-webui. Docker makes it easier to get out of dependency hell imo