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Orkhepaj: If you want to play a game you restart pc and play on windows? then when you want to do anything else you restart again to boot up linux?
Sounds like a lot of hassle for minimal gain
Games aren't the only reason to have dual boot.

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Orkhepaj: Sounds like a lot of hassle for minimal gain

So if you need apps that doesnt run on linux just win10 only.
If you dont have any of those app you could go for linux only.
I for one use quite a few processes where part of them are best done with one OS, then the other part with another OS. In my case, I need the access to multiple OS's.

And it isn't a hassle. It takes 3~4 minutes top to turn one OS off and start the other one. And if you're going from your secondary OS to your main OS and the dual boot menu is set to start the main OS after X time, you can set the PC to restart and go do something else while the computer do its thing.

And if it's still too much of a hassle for you and you have spare RAM, just set up a virtual machine with your secondary OS. Linux images for virtual machines, for example, are pretty easy to find. Just mind virtual machines have some limitations a full OS install doesn't (like some Win10 video drivers not working properly in virtual machines).
Post edited April 12, 2021 by _Auster_
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temps: Yeah I seem to remember something about NVIDIA graphics cards not getting along well with Linux. That might be a problem for me because I just bought a new EVGA RTX 3070 GPU.
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patrikc: Tested it myself with a GTX 1060 and I have to say it worked surprisingly well. Granted, there is room for improvement.
So I gather the reason Linux people are mad at NVIDIA is because NVIDIA wants proprietary drivers or something, whereas Linux is open source. What does this end up meaning for the player though? Is there any serious problem for them if they have an RTX 3070 and want to try using Linux? Will it simply not work?
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temps: I seem to remember something about NVIDIA graphics cards not getting along well with Linux.
You can use a nVIDIA GPU on Linux with performances similar to the same GPU on Windows, as long as you use nVIDIA-provided drivers. Due to a lack of cooperation from nVIDIA, the open-source drivers for their GPU has very poor performances, so if you do not want to use the nVIDIA-provided one you would be better with some integrated Intel chipset instead.

Of course, on Windows you don’t ask yourself this question: there are no open-source drivers at all.
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Orkhepaj:
HEEEYYY, you actually can post more than 5 words followed by a question mark?

This may be a touchy subject to you :P
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temps: I seem to remember something about NVIDIA graphics cards not getting along well with Linux.
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vv221: You can use a nVIDIA GPU on Linux with performances similar to the same GPU on Windows, as long as you use nVIDIA-provided drivers. Due to a lack of cooperation from nVIDIA, the open-source drivers for their GPU has very poor performances, so if you do not want to use the nVIDIA-provided one you would be better with some integrated Intel chipset instead.

Of course, on Windows you don’t ask yourself this question: there are no open-source drivers at all.
and they still work wonderfully :P
open source is so overhyped
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temps: I seem to remember something about NVIDIA graphics cards not getting along well with Linux.
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vv221: You can use a nVIDIA GPU on Linux with performances similar to the same GPU on Windows, as long as you use nVIDIA-provided drivers. Due to a lack of cooperation from nVIDIA, the open-source drivers for their GPU has very poor performances, so if you do not want to use the nVIDIA-provided one you would be better with some integrated Intel chipset instead.

Of course, on Windows you don’t ask yourself this question: there are no open-source drivers at all.
Just to clarify.. so the official drivers you get directly from NVIDIA will work fine with Linux and have great performance, right?

So the only reason Linux people are angry at NVIDIA is that the NVIDIA drivers are not open source?
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patrikc: Also, for some reason or another, Windows Defender brings the CPU usage to 99% while scanning, every single time.
That's if you have a speedy SSD, if anyone is using Spinning Rust, the system with halt for sometimes a few minutes, even the mouse point will not move. Gues what's going on my head anytime anyone asks to upgrade to Win10... (is not an upgrade, is a excuse to buy a new computer because the old one will be unusable)
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patrikc: Also, for some reason or another, Windows Defender brings the CPU usage to 99% while scanning, every single time.
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Dark_art_: That's if you have a speedy SSD, if anyone is using Spinning Rust, the system with halt for sometimes a few minutes, even the mouse point will not move. Gues what's going on my head anytime anyone asks to upgrade to Win10... (is not an upgrade, is a excuse to buy a new computer because the old one will be unusable)
sure sure :P more lies pls
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temps: What does this end up meaning for the player though? Is there any serious problem for them if they have an RTX 3070 and want to try using Linux? Will it simply not work?
As long as one is willing to use proprietary drivers, there shouldn't be any issue. You can do as you please, in this case install the drivers if needed. However, some distros come bundled with the necessary drivers, such as Pop OS or Manjaro, so everything should work from the get go, without taking any extra steps.
Even if you need to install the Nvidia drivers (say you want to use another distribution that does not offer them by default), the process is straightforward, nothing out of the ordinary.
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temps: Just to clarify.. so the official drivers you get directly from NVIDIA will work fine with Linux and have great performance, right?

So the only reason Linux people are angry at NVIDIA is that the NVIDIA drivers are not open source?
Yes.

There are some qwirks but nothing major if you don't change hardware often. Installed nVidia drivers may cause conflicts with other GPU's being used, not true with Intel and AMD, but it's easy to solve, just run a couple of commands to purge the drivers. (this is the same as in Windows)
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Orkhepaj: sure sure :P more lies pls
Are you sure about that?
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Orkhepaj: sure sure :P more lies pls
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patrikc: Are you sure about that?
"(is not an upgrade, is a excuse to buy a new computer because the old one will be unusable) " about this?
yeah pretty sure it wont be unusable
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temps: the official drivers you get directly from NVIDIA will work fine with Linux and have great performance, right?
Yes.

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temps: So the only reason Linux people are angry at NVIDIA is that the NVIDIA drivers are not open source?
That’s the main reason, but not the only one ;)
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Orkhepaj: So if you need apps that doesnt run on linux just win10 only.
If you dont have any of those app you could go for linux only.
And if you need both apps that don't run on linux and apps that require linux (and, for sake of argument, won't work in a VM or WSL), then what?
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Orkhepaj: So if you need apps that doesnt run on linux just win10 only.
If you dont have any of those app you could go for linux only.
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dtgreene: And if you need both apps that don't run on linux and apps that require linux (and, for sake of argument, won't work in a VM or WSL), then what?
what app is like that?