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People who have Nvidia gpu on linux, how is it performing?

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My main PC has a 5080 (from a 3080) on Mint and my HTPC has a 5060 on CachyOS. It's fine. Works for what I need it to do - just understand that there's no feature parity. Means no DLDSR, Nvidia App or Nvidia Broadcast. Also, as my main is on Mint - it's on X11 and multi-monitor VRR is effectively broken (Works properly on single monitor). It's really not as bad as most would have you believe. Yes, some performance penalty is there on some games and AMD support is better, but it works. Answer from smoothartichoke27 on reddit.com

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: People who have Nvidia gpu on linux, how is it performing?

December 22, 2025 -

im thinking on getting a gpu for my desktop the rtx 3050 6gb to be exact

but i heard that its a hassle and something bout dx 12 issue

im new to linux so i got no idea what's goin on just wanna make sure that its playable and

usable:)

My main PC has a 5080 (from a 3080) on Mint and my HTPC has a 5060 on CachyOS. It's fine. Works for what I need it to do - just understand that there's no feature parity. Means no DLDSR, Nvidia App or Nvidia Broadcast. Also, as my main is on Mint - it's on X11 and multi-monitor VRR is effectively broken (Works properly on single monitor). It's really not as bad as most would have you believe. Yes, some performance penalty is there on some games and AMD support is better, but it works.

Mines been fine so far on Nobara. Haven't needed any crazy tweaks. Far more issues when I was using PopOS a few years ago, or when I was trying to manually install drivers on Debian. My understanding is there's also a big gap in performance and stuff between older gen and newer gen Nvidia GPUs.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Nvidia on Linux

July 7, 2025 -

I've heard a lot of stuff about lack of Nvidia GPU support in most Linux distros. I want to make the jump but I have a 3080ti and don't really have the funds to upgrade right now. How bad is it really for gamers? What would I have to do to make it work? Are there any distros better at handling it than others?

I've heard a lot of stuff about lack of Nvidia GPU support in most Linux distros It's not true. Almost all distro support Nvidia just fine. The Nvidia driver is struggling in some aspects, like with a 20% loss in some DX12 games compared to Windows but overall it works and you can play games just fine.

It will work fine. The issue is you will see subpar performance in DX12 titles when compared to windows. Not a big hit in some games. Could be bigger in others. But overall it isn’t a bad experience with nvidia on Linux at all.

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r/nvidia on Reddit: How is Nvidia on Linux these days?

November 21, 2025 -

Hi all.

I've recently joined team green for the first time in 15 years after years of team red and most recently team blue (which was awful).

Obviously AMD is the king of Linux drivers but how does Nvidia match up these days?

What will I lose from the windows experience in Linux?

The best way i can describe Nvidia on Linux is: imperfect? Yes, unusable? Definitely not!

General/ballpark performance on Linux (Arch KDE Wayland) from my single player gaming box, can be very much game dependant: DirectX11 and older DirectX versions - performance is on par with Windows Vulkan titles - performance matches / exceeds Windows DirextX12 titles - performance hit currently, expect 10% to 18% lower framerates when compared to Windows Raytracing enabled in titles - 10% to 15% performance hit when compared to Windows, this is in addition to any API performance hit e.g. DirectX12 with raytracing total 20% to 33% less performance Must stress again, the above are general/ballpark figures based on a single system in singleplayer games.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: How's Nvidia on Linux now?

January 20, 2025 -

I'm looking to upgrade my PC from the trusty RX 580 and Nvidia GPUs would seem like a good option if not for their infamy in Linux world. But most infamies and "accepted truths" generally lag behind for 3-10 years, as indicated by the general public's view of Linux on desktop as a whole and I am generally not as up-to-date on hardware scene as a whole as I would want to be.

Is Nvidia still as bad as I think it is (barely useable) or has it improved in the last N years to the point that it's viable again?

I have always heard of problems with Nvidia and Linux, so when i bought a new computer last week i were close to get a new AMD card. Though there is some new cards comming Q1 this year from both Nvidia and AMD so i holded on to my old card (2060) until the new one comes. And i put it inside my new Ryzen computer, installed Fedora KDE Plasma edition to se if i could get the HDR working. Bootet the system, installed Nvidia drivers, updated the system and rebooted. And it just work, like a charm :D And all the games i have tested runs so much better then it did on windows. So now I am looking at maybe buying a new Nvidia card instead. We will see when the new cards comes. Edit: My card is a: ASUS GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC EVO

Am I tripping or did I see this being asked like at least 3 times today

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: How good is Nvidia on Linux?

October 18, 2024 -

Hi guys,

i plan on getting a new graficscard for christmas. In the moment I have a GTX1070 and I plan on getting something like a rx 7700xt or 4060ti. I know that nvidia and linux gaming has been a big no no. But since i have an nvidia and didn't encountert any problems at all I wonder if that's still true. What do you guys think about nvidia? Should i go with a amd? I run Linux mint.

Update:
I guess i go with a 6800. It seems to has the same performance as a 7700xt with the addon of more Vram. Thanks for your storys and tips. At the end i would say that nvidia cards are fine with linux nowadays

Generally NVIDIA got over the past months in a pretty good state. Wayland works generally same as on AMD, maybe there can be here and there some hiccups, but those you have also on AMD. DLSS FG will also be available soon. There are some minor pending issues: Multi Monitor VRR is not working yet, should be solved soon If the VRAM is full, it has sometimes problems to reallocate it Ive switched from a 1070 Ti to a 4070 Super and have a quite good experience. Generally, you need to do some configuration steps for nvidia, but those are documented in the arch wiki. Besides that, maybe a distribution which provides precompiled NVIDIA modules would be favorable, to avoid the issues with akmods as example.

My 3080 works perfectly, I'm honestly not sure why Nvidia has such a bad reputation.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Quick thoughts on current state nVidia GPUs on Linux.

September 11, 2025 -

For the first time since getting my 5090 on launch day, I was able to get it, a 4090 and all five monitors working with HDR and VRR enabled pretty much out of the box with Cachy. So that is a much better situation than in Q1 2025.

Only about 4 fours Linux game testing, but everything works in the games I tried thus far except HDR, hadn't really played with that in games yet. The games run well. But it is a little painful to see the performance hit. But then not.

Stellar Blade was the game I tested most as I also want to try mods with that game as they are simply just adding files and even that worked. Even performance was great like around 300 FPS with max 4k settings, 4x MFG. But the same settings on the same hardware Windows, 400 FPS.

I think this is one reason why nVidia on Linux can be a contentious issue. nVidia can be fine on Linux and get better performance than any AMD part at the high-end more demanding scenarios with RT and use of frame gen. But then you consistently take a performance hit relative to Windows.

TL;DR: nVidia is fine enough on Linux where you can get better performance and even features than AMD at the high-end. But then you take than same hardware and get even more performance with Windows.

It's an issue in the drivers. Apparently nvidia identified the issue finally while working on Horizon Forbidden Dawn optimizations and think they can fix it for everything. Though they haven't released the fix yet. Hopefully it's coming. I don't think the extra FPS is really worth having to deal with windows. But my reason for switching wasn't chasing FPS, but experience.

its basically a trade off between a better user experience (if you prefer linux that is) vs maximum performance, until Nvidia releases a driver that fix the dx12 issue. But if you prefer windows and want to get the most out of your nvidia gpu then linux is clearly not the right choice for you right now.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: What's the state of Nvidia + Linux right now?

November 15, 2025 -

I recently nabbed me an AW Area 51 18 and I've been itching to ditch Win11 and hop on the Bazzite bandwagon so I can finally be free of Windows' ever-increasing heaps of bullshit. However, I've heard that Bazzite (and gaming on Linux in general??) doesn't rly vibe with Nvidia GPUs. Recent research seems to pull up varying results and a LOT of case-by-case nuance. So what's the general take on it right now, is it doable or should I keep waiting for Linux and Nvidia to cozy up?

It's nearly issue free, except for DX12 games which all have a 10-20% performance tax. Nvidia claims they found the issue so it should be fixed soon™

I game on Linux with Nvidia for 2 years, yes we have some issues here and there, nowadays the main issue is DirectX12 games, but i still can play every game that is playable on Linux.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: NVIDIA Linux Users: What is your setup?

July 14, 2025 -

Hello!

I want to get an idea of how NVIDIA users are getting the most out of their system while running Linux as the primary OS, mainly for gaming.

I realize from what I have read and tested myself, NVIDIA performance on Linux falls short of Windows in most gaming cases.

I had previously run a Windows VM on my Unraid server for gaming for quite a while, it worked pretty well and I don't recall having anywhere near the perf issues I have with NVIDIA on Linux.

I moved to having two separate systems for some time now but with that experience in mind I wondered if it would be worth running a Windows VM on a Linux Desktop OS to answer for my performance issues with NVIDIA on Linux? That way I can use Linux for most needs and just fire up the VM for gaming to get closer to native perf.

I haven't had the time to try it out yet but I am planning on doing something like that soon to see how it works.

Questions:

Do any of you have Linux as your primary OS with an NVIDIA GPU?

If so, how do you get the most out of it?

Are there some best practices or tips that could make it more viable to use an NVIDIA GPU?

Edit - More Questions:

Which OS do you use/recommend for gaming?

What games do you play?

What sort of FPS avg do you get for your games?

Do you use HDR?

What resolution do you play at?

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Edit - Specs:

Probably worth mentioning my hardware!

GPU: RTX 3080 Ti

CPU: Intel i5 10600k

Display: 4K, 120hz, HDR (which I really want to be able to use)

I don't expect 120 fps in Cyberpunk 2077, but in most cases games where I just make over 60 fps at 4K on Windows will run well below that on Linux. I haven't checked but I guess G-Sync should help with this but not sure if its supported on Linux.

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Thanks in advance!

I install the nvidia-dkms package maybe 8 years ago and live a smooth life ever since. Do. Not. Waste your time with vm gaming. PCIe passthrough exists and I've gone down that long winding road myself. It's just not worth it. Especially because most competitive games refuse and even ban players for trying to use a VM to play and trying to circumvent their vm checks. If you absolutely must use say, Adobe products then sure use a vm. Even give it a physical GPU if you want. But don't make a vm just for windows gaming. If you need windows for anything more than a few apps that don't work in wine. Just dual boot it or don't use Linux at all.

4070 Ti Super with Linux Mint here, 575.64.03 drivers. You pay the "Nvidia tax" on DX12 games. Otherwise you should not have performance problems. I second all of the recommendations about not using a Windows VM. If you need Windows for whatever reason, just dual boot. If you're going to dual boot, it's easiest to have one SSD for Linux and one for Windows.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Nvidia and Linux?

May 23, 2025 -

I have been highly considering switching over the linux from windows 11 and I was curious on how well nvidia graphics cards are supported on linux? I made a boot drive for dual booting between linux and windows around 3 years ago and I had problems with the nvidia drivers working on linux. Has this been remedied over time or is it about the same?

Your 3060 should be fine. Don't install the drivers directly from Nvidia's website. That's usually the source of everybody's problems. Download them from your package manager. In some situations you may run into stuttering issues, in which case you need to use the proprietary module instead of the open module and disable the GSP firmware. Which distro are you using btw?

It would work, but in the long run I recommend ditching it and switching to AMD to have less problems. Normal upstream support for Nvidia still hasn't materialized fully, but there is some progress on that.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: What's the verdict on the latest Nvidia drivers solving the Linux performance penalty?

March 19, 2026 -

I'm on an RTX 2070 and I've been struggling to get good performance on Space Marine 2, an extra ten to fifteen percent performance would make all the difference.

It’s supposedly better performance but still not the complete uplift as that requires other things to update, anywhere from 2-15 fps depending on the game, that said, the driver is still in beta so expect a lot of bugs or crashes.

Have you checked Digital Foundry's "Best settings" optimization guide for SM2 bychance? Might have some useful insight, even though it's for Windows. They usually do.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Nvidia bad on linux is a lie

April 27, 2026 -

I have an rtx 5070ti a ryzen 7 5700x3d and im running debian 13 stable and im using the offical nvidia repo for debian and im getting the exact same performance then on windows in almost all games so i dont know why all people are just saying nvida is bad i tested a 9070xt and it was a pain in the ass to get it to work on any LTS distro and it was just a worse GPU to get to work and i dont want to spend 30minutes getting a GPU to work evry time i reinstall my OS

I ate a breakfast today, world hunger is a lie. edit: please don't tell me you've been testing the 9070xt on debian 13 stable.... ?

that font is terrorism

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r/linux on Reddit: Is Nvidia on Linux still bad?

February 16, 2025 -

I am planning to buy a laptop. I want to have a peak Linux experience, so I have been looking for laptops with dedicated AMD GPUs. While searching, I noticed a few things:

There are not many laptops with dedicated AMD GPUs. Most available options come with integrated GPUs like the 780M.
For the price of a laptop with a 780M, I can get a laptop with an RTX 3050 or better.
System76 sells Linux laptops with Nvidia GPUs on their website.

Additionally, I want to install Manjaro on my laptop. Are there any Linux distributions with better Nvidia support?

As someone who's recently been at the bleeding edge of GPU stuff working on the GTK Vulkan renderer, there is one big difference between AMD/Intel and nvidia: nvidia is not part of the community. Why is that relevant? Because it means we cannot synchronize what we do with nvidia. With AMD/Intel we communicate about important issues and get them worked on in time for the next releases, so that when a new Fedora or Ubuntu gets released, we know that the driver version works well with GTK. Here's some examples: nvidia's Vulkan driver wakes up the dGPU every time a Vulkan-using app starts. This takes 3-5 seconds. So every GTK app on a dual-gpu nvidia laptop currrently takes 5s to start. The nvidia 3xx/4xx drivers have a critical bug. The drivers are unsupported by nvidia, so the bug will never be fixed. That means older nvidia GPUs (> 10 years old) will not work with Gnome starting next release. Way older AMD/Intel GPUs still work fine (I think it's 15-20 years). Nvidia only supports explicit synchronization of data, while the rests of Linux in the past has done implict synchronization. While Wayland compositors do support explicit sync now (that's why people say "Wayland works now"), many applications working with GPUs do not. GStreamer for example has an open bug about it with issues integrating things, so now there's tearing/flickering with hardware decoded video only on nvidia. Things like this, where only nvidia is different and not supported and no progress is made, is quite common. So does it work today? Maybe, maybe not. Will it work next release? Maybe, maybe not. Nobody really knows because nvidia and the community don't talk so nobody knows what new features the community will ship and if nvidia will support that feature on the GPU you buy.

I use Mint with nvidia laptop and PC and game on both, never had any problems.

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r/linux on Reddit: How are Nvidia drivers with Linux these days? (Late 2025)

October 12, 2025 -

About 3 or so years ago I had a 3090ti with my Linux computer. It was giving a lot of weird small issues although mostly usable with Wayland. So I decided to trade it in and grab a 7900 XTX and I've been very happy with it so far. But my card is currently possibly showing signs of failing but it's also kind of discontinued in micro center so I won't be able to get another one of it except for the crappier models. As it stands at the moment, I can either tough it out till 2027 since Radeon isn't making enthusiast cards at the moment I might have to switch back to Nvidia. Some issues I had back then were

HDR was all but broken
Wayland was really unstable with Nvidia
and steam a big picture mode. The performance was really slow choppy and laggy due to no support of graphics card acceleration with Nvidia
Hit or Miss Vrr/gsync that sometimes caused flickering in full screen games. So skipping to current date. Anybody have a recent Nvidia card knows if any of these issues were fixed?

I got a 3090, and am running Fedora with KDE. I haven’t tried anything with an HDR Display yet, so… think I have one, but I just never tried it with my main PC, so no idea. Wayland is working amazing these days imo! Never had any problems! No clue, never use Big Picture on the PC. Unsure about this. I’m not really perceptive enough for this kinda stuff. Definitely haven’t had any flickering though.

Using NVIDIA propietary drivers on Fedora 42.. (1650 Super) Using KDE Plasma on Wayland, works fine for the most part. Every once in a while you get a few microstutters. Not a huge issue. Sometimes hover titles in the panel appear all stretched out until you hover them again, this is a common issue. Overall, stable enough for me to use but definitely not as stable as say, an AMD or Intel card. Haven't used HDR. Vsync seems to work fine in games, but I'm not sure if that's really the same as GSync. Also no clue with Steam Big Picture.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Seriously considering moving to Linux, but Nvidia gpu

September 19, 2023 -

Hi,

I'd like to start by saying I'm not really a Linux noob, I have worked a lot with Linux but never gaming.

At work I have dumped my windows machine (had to request admin rights every time I wanted to install something, ugh) in favour of a Linux one. It came with Ubuntu 20.04 which isn't too great, but I prefer it so much over windows.

Now I'd like to do the same for my gaming pc, but I have some serious concerns for the Nvidia driver support. My Pc consists of an Intel i9-9900k and an NVidia RTX 3090 Founders edition. Other less relevant specs are 16gb ram, several TBs of disk space divided over SATA and NVMe disks, and I have an Asus WS C246 mobo.

Ideally I'd install a distro like Arch or NixOS.

I heard Xorg can't support two different refresh rates on monitors, and I am running a 165Hz and 60Hz monitor setup, both 1440p so that would mean both would run at 60Hz. Conversely, nvidia has a beyond terrible reputation on working with wayland.

Any experiences or advice you folks could share? The monitor setup is my main concern, followed by nvidia specific issues.

Nvidia's GPUs are very well supported on Linux as long as you di things that Nvidia wants to support. Maybe dont rush to update to the latest newest kernel and you're generally fine.

Just install popos-nvidia. It's working fine for me with a single 4k144hz monitor. Haven't tested secondary. Wayland seems a bit glitchy so I don't use it - there was no advantage for me. Or you can set all of this up with ubuntu or arch - but pop comes with it ready for immediate use. The only trouble you will have is when you have many drives and many os - setting up proper multiboot is not so easy. Consider your partition layouts very carefully and understand how EFI boot works. You can test all this out without installing, just boot from live image. Might need some tweaking to turn on wayland on: edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf - set waylandenable=true.

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r/linux4noobs on Reddit: Is it worth it to switch to Linux for an Nvidia user who mostly games?

September 19, 2025 -

Hi everyone total noob here. I mostly play steam games on my PC and I also have an Nvidia graphics card is it worth making the switch from Windows 11 to Linux in 2025? Pros? Cons?

Depends which games you play

Define worth it. U don't want Microsofts Data Mining on your PC->Go Linux. Being able to play kernel level anti cheat mp titles-> stick with windows. If game run on Linux performance is usually quite close (a bit less avg. Fps, but better 1%lows).

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: NVidia for Gaming on Linux

October 15, 2024 -

I'm upgrading my computer, and I've also decided to take the leap and switch entirely to Linux. I do a lot of large-scale statistical computing so I can't really get an AMD for my next card as others suggest, and I'm worried this might be a big problem for gaming.

I have quite a few years of experience using Linux, but never for games, so I am currently very unsure of how easy/difficult it is and how much having an NVidia will complicate things.

Is using an NVidia really that bad for gaming on Linux? If so, is Intel worth considering as a potential middle ground? Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.

nope, no issue with nVidia for already sometime. tested with 4070, 4060, and nVidia 2060m. Playing games on Linux mint, manjaro cinnamon desktop, no issues at all.

Nvidia drivers on Linux are not as much of an issue nowadays. If you have a newer card and want stability, run the 550 drivers. Got something a few years older, 535 or 550 will work fine. Want to use the newest features like AI, the 560 should do the trick but is a little touchy. For gaming, the 550 do great! I have not had an issue with Nvidia driver on Linux in at least the last three years.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: XDA: “I tried gaming on Linux with an Nvidia GPU, and it's actually pretty solid”

December 14, 2025 -

XDA Developers tested gaming on Linux with an Nvidia GPU using CachyOS on an Asus ROG Flow X13 laptop and found the experience surprisingly capable. Games like Bioshock Remastered, Call of Juarez, Hellblade, and Elden Ring ran at playable frame rates, though Control Ultimate Edition struggled more significantly. While Windows generally delivered smoother performance, particularly for non-native Linux ports, the Linux gaming experience proved serviceable for single-player gaming, especially since modern Linux distributions come with pre-installed Nvidia drivers and Steam’s Proton compatibility layer. The author concludes that Linux gaming has matured considerably and is worth trying for those interested in switching, recommending dual-booting as a low-risk way to explore the platform.

Isn’t this well known? You just get a bit less performance than windows especially in DX12 games

It's the pre-GTX 1650 GPUs that have and will continue having an unfortunate time on Linux. People are recommending the move to Linux on machines with aging, but still usable hardware, yet those with GPUs older than the 1650 will experience instability. These GPUs don't support the newer open kernel module driver and they've also stopped receiving major driver updates beyond bug fixes for 580. Wayland desktop environments still have stuttering/flickering issues. The mouse cursor regularly flickers when it enters the busy cursor state and it's only an issue on these older cards from what I can tell. More importantly though, many VRR monitors (including those that are NVIDIA G-Sync certified) can intermittently blank out when they reach the lower end of the VRR range (usually 48Hz). I experience this with Euro Truck Simulator 2 a lot, and it only happens on Linux. There are a handful of reports about this on the NVIDIA forums and it's being attributed to "low framerate compensation" being broken in the Linux drivers, but there's no real solution in sight for this at the moment and I assume it won't see a fix in the near future for these older GPUs.

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r/linux on Reddit: Current state of Nvidia drivers

January 7, 2025 -

Around 1 year ago i switched to linux, and now im finally building my new PC. With the new nvidia 50 series announced, i started to become unsure about picking amd over nvidia, because the nvidia gpu offers way better performance.

With the nvidia drivers being partially open sourced, how far have they actually come and how are the expectations for the future of nvidia and how big are the downsides a the moment, as well as in the future?

I personally use fedora, but I wouldn’t mind changing distro if it helps, i also dont mind tinkering at all, I just want to know how much you can actually reach with it.

Im sorry in advanced for the grammar cause my inner autocorrect is set to german.

(Had to repost because the original post got taken down because i never verified my email)

I switched to Liunx about 15 years ago. I've had plenty of nvidia GPUs over the years, and a few AMDs (I think they were called 390s or something?). Back then, everyone was all hype because the AMD drivers are amazing and nvidia driver suck. I must have missted some Memo, because my AMD GPUs never worked great. I had plenty of issues, and the community is smaller. Hardware accelerated video decoding? Never got it to work. It's been about 8 years, may be better nowadays With Nvidia I've never had any issues at all. Back then Xorg configuration was a bit shoddy, but nvidia shipped a configuration tool which set it up perfectly. A few months ago ArchLinux or KDE decided to switch to Wayland. I didn't even notice until very recently. This is on a Notebook. It's your money, but based purely on "Just Works Good", I say go with nvidia. If your use-case is AI workloads, then it's "Probably Nvidia". AMD is getting much better in this department, but they're still sleeping. No idea why, feels like they don't want to make money. With Nvidia everything just works.

None of that code that nvidia opened is important to you use a user. It might make life easier for distributions, but wont change any features. Nvidia's approach with their new firmware is going to make life easier for those making actual open drivers, but even then, lots of the important stuff lives in the closed firmware. Those open drivers will likely never be better than nvidia's own drivers in raw performance, but they will hopefully be better for the linux desktop generally though.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: Nvidia GPU's actually work fine on Linux?

December 21, 2024 -

Hello guys. My current PC was assembled in 2020. Originally, it had an RTX 2060 with a Ryzen 5 2600, and it had Windows 10 installed. I switched to Linux (Ubuntu) somewhere in mid-2022.

I have recently made the switch to an RTX 3070. The CPU has remained the same.

A ton of people told me not to do it, because Nvidia works badly with Linux and whatnot, and that I have to go with AMD. I decided to go with an RTX 3070 either way, as I found it to be the best option for me price to performance wise.

Honestly, I't working great? I have no complaints. The only thing that might be an issue is the fact that DLSS apparently doesn't work with some games? I am able to turn it on in the Witcher 3, RDR 2, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, but it seems to be unavailable in Cyberpunk or Baldur's Gate 3.

So honestly, I don't believe I have ever had an issue with either the 2060 or the 3070 as a Linux user?

I was wondering why Nvidia had such a bad rep within the Linux community?

It’s gotten a lot better in the last year, hell, in the last 6 months.

NVIDIA also works great for me, I have no complaints.

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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: is Nvidia on linux that bad?

April 22, 2025 -

Recently I've been deciding between an rx 7900 xtx and an rtx 4070 ti super for gaming and blender on linux. on one hand linux works better with amd when it comes to gaming but since i also want to use blender, which makes me lean towards nvidia since it beats amd in productivity with no contest. but i’ve also heard that nvidia performs worse on linux than amd when it comes to gaming. so i’m asking, is nvidia on linux that bad to the point i have to give up my dreams of being a 3d modelling artist and go all amd?

oh and sorry for making it sound dramatic at the end and also sorry for bad english lol

I own rtx 4070 ti super/7900X3D combo. i run archlinux and I could not be any happier. AMA

I've had 0 problems with my 3070ti, except for a couple weird window rendering things under Wayland (basically just my browser windows, interestingly).