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graynk commented on Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse garbagecollected.dev/p/va... · Posted by u/ee64a4a

cHaOs667 · a day ago

"ProtonDB tracks compatibility, and counts 7000+ games that are verified to work as well or almost as well as on Windows" - I always laugh when a media outlet uses ProtonDB as an example as the reality is something different. I have a ~1500 games big Steam Library and I'm also a Linux User for 20+ years - yes, I do use Windows only for gaming and on my work pc.

When I fire up my linux workstation or steam deck and browse my library, there are countless games, marked as "platinum" in ProtonDB, but do not work OOTB. Sometimes it's a later Proton version that broke the compatibility, sometimes you still need to tinker in the settings in addition to choose the correct proton version. All in all, I've spent quite some time getting games to run I just wanted to play a single afternoon as nostaliga hitted hard.

As long as issues like this are not resolved, I don't believe in Steam Machines as alternatives for consoles in the living room space.

And yes, I'm still considering a steam machine for my living room, even though I will need to support my wife and kids in getting games to run on the TV.

graynk · 4 hours ago

> as nostalgia hit hard

in my experience the older games are more of a pain to get running, as a lot more tweaks are needed

it's the case on Windows too, but on Linux there's an additional need to mess with DLL overrides DXVK settings and the like

graynk commented on Wayland Nvidia kextcache.com/wayland-nvi... · Posted by u/breve

rmrfchik · 9 days ago

Suspend/Resume simply nvidia bug: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cant-resume-from-suspe...

Dozen of packages, official packages, you need bunch of, like, 590.44.01-1 packages installed: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/deb...

Lags: sorry, I have no more nvidia and can't record video.

(edit: formatting)

graynk · 9 days ago

And there are simply AMD bugs in the same vein, yes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/?sort=create.... Again, I'm not saying it's not broken on NVIDIA, I'm saying it's just broken, period.

> official packages

Which is unfortunately not a good thing when it comes to NVIDIA. "Modern" distros package those for you, which is why I install linux-cachyos-nvidia-open [0] now and previously nvidia-driver-${version} [1] when I was using Pop! OS, both of which worked without a single issue for me from the word "go". My point is: it's not all doom and gloom, there's life to be had and it's not that worse than AMD cards.

[0] https://packages.cachyos.org/package/cachyos/x86_64/linux-ca...

[1] https://github.com/pop-os/nvidia-graphics-drivers

graynk commented on Wayland Nvidia kextcache.com/wayland-nvi... · Posted by u/breve

rmrfchik · 10 days ago

Suspend/resume was broken in nvidia since release on aug 2024. I have internal bug id for it. And dozen links with suspend scripts. No more drivers I mean I don't need to install dozens of packages. While it not big deal by itself, but reverting broken driver is huge deal. Laggy desktop -- this is my experience until nov 2025 when I dumped nvidia. Desktop on both intel and amd feels like magic after nvidia.

graynk · 10 days ago

Suspend/resume is broken for my friend with an AMD card right now. That's what I mean: it's broken everywhere in slightly different ways, yes even on Windows. Thankfully I never use it anyway.

Dunno anything about dozens of packages, I installed 1 (one) package from my distro and haven't touched it since, no issues with updates either. That same friend with an AMD card keeps getting random hard PC freezes during gaming though.

Also absolutely zero issues with lags/latency for me (on GNOME. I did experience a bunch of weird bugs with KDE, but again - no lags)

One thing that is very real is DirectX 12 performance. This one really does suffer due to poor nvidia drivers. Hope they iron it out at some point

graynk commented on Wayland Nvidia kextcache.com/wayland-nvi... · Posted by u/breve

rmrfchik · 11 days ago

nvidia on linux [for desktop] is utterly broken. I ran nvidia cards for almost 15 years (shame on me): laggy X11 compositing, fragile and broken wayland. Broken suspend/resume. Too many moving parts (selected drivers, modprobe quirks, suspend/resume scripts). Moved to amd: slick x11, reliable wayland, NO MORE DRIVERS AT ALL, works like charm. And yes, I do playing in Linux.

graynk · 10 days ago

Suspend/resume is broken in general (and everywhere besides Mac), including AMD on Linux.

No more drivers is just..false?

The rest was true up to roughly 3 years ago. Now I'm a happy camper

graynk commented on Wayland Nvidia kextcache.com/wayland-nvi... · Posted by u/breve

tietjens · 11 days ago

When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

graynk · 10 days ago

Kinda now. That's what I've been doing for a while now. I have a PC though, not a laptop. Running CachyOS with 4070Ti, GNOME with Wayland. Even VR works

graynk commented on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable theverge.com/tech/823337/... · Posted by u/throwaway270925

AuthAuth · a month ago

This is bad. New user going onto an arch distro with a ton of tweaks is worst case scenario for a smooth experience.

I'm sure cachyOS will work a treat out of the box, but i'm also sure that one day things will stop working and cascade into a distro hop or reinstall leaving a sour taste in the users mouth.

You do not need a "gaming" distro, all distros use the same software and you will be fine on ubuntu, fedora etc.

graynk · a month ago

> You do not need a "gaming" distro, all distros use the same software and you will be fine on ubuntu, fedora etc.

That's not necessarily true. I mean, you will be fine, but gaming is one of the areas where you can benefit from having everything on bleeding edge. And Cachy is surprisingly stable (and the "one day things will stop working" can realistically be said about any Linux distro, really).

graynk commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

aDyslecticCrow · a month ago

This is a issue of critical mass. With the continued growth of steamos, steamdeck, and linux as a game platform, eventually it will pull over support.

graynk · a month ago

I sincerely hope it doesn't happen then. I'd rather have game developers come up with a different solution that is not a rootkit

graynk commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

thadt · a month ago

Pretty much the only reason I boot to Windows anymore is to play games with my kids and family. The direction of this thing is dangerously close to being all I'd care about from a desktop computer.

If Valve pivoted into making a well-supported laptop with good hardware that ran Linux and played games...

graynk · a month ago

I believe you're looking for https://system76.com/

graynk commented on Blue Prince (1989) novalis.org/blog/2025-10-... · Posted by u/luu

lylejantzi3rd · 2 months ago

This is blowing my mind. I didn't know Blue Prince was a remake. I've read several interviews with Tonda Ros. He mentions some of his inspirations, including the 80s game Maze, but never mentions the original Blue Prince game. I wonder if he omitted that because there could be spoilers or hints there he didn't want to draw attention to?

graynk · 2 months ago

> This is blowing my mind.

I assume that was the goal of the post. Because such a game does not exist :)

But I also believed it for a moment.

graynk commented on HTTPS by default security.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/jhalderm

sam_lowry_ · 2 months ago

My ISP does not and if yours does, vote with your money or lobby your government to make this illegal.

And while at it, lobby to make corporate MiTM tools illegal as well.

Because if you are bothered about my little blog, you should be bothered that your employer can inspect all your HTTPS traffic.

graynk · 2 months ago

Or you could do a much simpler thing and support HTTPS and not expect users to change ISPs (which is not always possible, e.g. in rural areas) or change laws (which is even less realistic) to browse your (or any other) blog. Injecting ads has nothing to do with corporate MITM, it's unquestionably bad, but unrelated here.

More to the point: serving your blog with HTTPS via Let's Encrypt does not in any way forbid you from also serving it with HTTP without "depending on third parties to publish content online". It would take away from the drama of the statement though, I suppose.