Getting AAA games working in Linux sometimes requires concealing your GPU

<em>Hogwarts Legacy</em> must be conned to avoid crashing itself with XeSS upscaling.

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Having recently made the leap to Linux in April as my only computing OS, and wanting games to work on it, I deliberately went with Nvidia as my GPU, which has historically had better support from the Linux community than AMD processors.

Valve has done a lot for Linux Gaming. I remember 10+ years ago, when updating the Nvidia driver required downloading the binary from Nvidia's website, shutting down the graphical interface on the computer, installing the driver by hand, and hoping that everything went well after a reboot.

If it didn't... well, use w3m to go download a Debian ISO in CLI, use wodim to burn it to a DVD, then reinstall the OS and fight with Nouveau.

Then Valve said that Windows 8 was terrible, ported Steam and their games to Linux, and in a matter of weeks we could "apt install nvidia-driver".

Today there's Proton that makes a lot of Windows-only games run on Linux. TW3 at 1080p60 on a GTX1060 is fantastic. (For the record, TW2's Linux port is so bad, it probably runs a lot better on Proton).

You're both equally annoying. What someone else plays or how they play it isn't any of my business.

I have a simple set of 3 rules to know if I should care about what people do:

• Does it hurt people?
• Does it hurt the climate?
• Does it hurt biodiversity / animals?

If it's no on all 3, then IDGAF.

Edit: Added animals in #3