Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they noted has the beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we're closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Although this release is still just for Steam Deck.
Practically speaking, we are at a turning point regarding Nvidia on Linux. Things were bad before but they have improved significantly. Newer drivers from Nvidia are partially open-source and they seem good so far.
As long as your GPU isn’t too old, it should be fine. Bur you should verify before commiting.
Thanks ! Had a check (I have a 4070ti desktop card and 3070ti mobile card) looks like I’m good and all supported. Going to finally make the switch tomorrow, wish me luck :)
I’ll be honest, I stay up to date on gens because I can through work. Reality is, games seem to have plateaud a good few years ago and we’re upgrading due to shonky development / crap and lazy optimisation most of the time.
I play primarily metroidvania’s and older games 95% of the time and if it wasn’t for work I would probably still be rocking my 1080ti :)
I’ve had some issues with NV cards, but those were prior to the newer open-source driver architecture which should be available for Turing cards and beyond:
I’m not personally running Bazzite, but before I switched to an AMD card, Nvidia worked just fine for me. Bazzite being more streamlined and gaming-specific, I can only imagine it would do perfectly well running Nvidia.
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Thanks for this!
Out of interest, how is the driver support for Nvidia cards? This is the thing that has always put me off bailing on Windows for games.
Practically speaking, we are at a turning point regarding Nvidia on Linux. Things were bad before but they have improved significantly. Newer drivers from Nvidia are partially open-source and they seem good so far.
As long as your GPU isn’t too old, it should be fine. Bur you should verify before commiting.
Thanks ! Had a check (I have a 4070ti desktop card and 3070ti mobile card) looks like I’m good and all supported. Going to finally make the switch tomorrow, wish me luck :)
I’m running a 2080 ti and while it’s def aging and showing it now, it’s been great so far.
The 2080ti is great card!
I’ll be honest, I stay up to date on gens because I can through work. Reality is, games seem to have plateaud a good few years ago and we’re upgrading due to shonky development / crap and lazy optimisation most of the time.
I play primarily metroidvania’s and older games 95% of the time and if it wasn’t for work I would probably still be rocking my 1080ti :)
Anyhow, rant over and thanks for the feedback !
I’ve had some issues with NV cards, but those were prior to the newer open-source driver architecture which should be available for Turing cards and beyond:
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
I’ve actually got a laptop with a 2070 so I’ll try that out myself and see if it resolves some of the issues I know I had with the proprietary drivers
I’m not personally running Bazzite, but before I switched to an AMD card, Nvidia worked just fine for me. Bazzite being more streamlined and gaming-specific, I can only imagine it would do perfectly well running Nvidia.
Bazzite comes with Nvidia support out of the box.
Awesome, thanks for this…. Will 100% look into it this weekend ;)