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    I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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    [–] Pofski@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    If I as an older person would like to start using linux, where would you recommend to start? Is there an easy guide I can follow on how to use linux?

    [–] imAadesh@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I'll recommend NobaraOS. It comes with everything set up out-of-the box and you can change interface to Windows or macOS style.

    DO NOT SWITCH, until you've found that every software you use has a Linux version... Or an alternative which works on Linux as well as for you.

    ALSO DO NOT SWITCH if you have the 30 or 40 series NVIDIA cards. Or any NVIDIA card for that matter.

    YouTube channel recommendations - The Linux Experiment, Tech Hut, Gardiner Bryant (old videos, he just makes Steam Deck content now)

    [–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    ALSO DO NOT SWITCH if you have the 30 or 40 series NVIDIA cards. Or any NVIDIA card for that matter.

    Why? I've got a 3060, and it's running perfectly under Mint. It's worked on the half a dozen or so other distros I've live booted too.

    [–] Huschke@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If I had to guess OP is probably talking about DLSS 3+ which is not supported on Linux at the moment. And what other reason is there to buy an Nvidia 30 or 40 series card if not for that?

    [–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

    Anything that uses CUDA for a start

    [–] Tankton@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

    I had issues with my 4060 on the latest mint, but everything worked fine on Ubuntu 23.04. Everything can be fixed but Ubuntu worked out of the box.

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