By skyforbes I'm a pretty heavy gamer and former content-creator, and I check a fair bit of boxes that most people historically would be driven away from Linux:
– high end NVIDIA GPU (5080)
– HDR monitor (AW3423DWF)
– Picky about high HDR, RTX, and DLSS
– Max out AAA gaming performance
– has some AAA games on non-Steam libraries
I'm super pleased to say that most of the stuff I play has minimal to an hour or so of tinkering to get to work with what I want!
I started with KDE and CachyOS, and quickly discovered Hyprland and fell in love with tiling window managers and keyboard-centric workflows. I installed a popular set of dot files, Caelestia.
Within about a week, I got all of the games I want working with all of the features I use, and most are better performing than on Windows 11, which is crazy cool to me!
Some quirky highlights:
- Cyberpunk at DLSS x2 Frame Gen with Path Tracing (GoG store)
- FF7 Rebirth with HDR and ultrawide resolution fixes
- HDR in general is way better than Windows 11's attempts at tonemapping
-KCD2 has higher FPS somehow?
There are some downsides, such as Monster Hunter Wilds having a breaking bug on Linux for now (though a fix is hopefully coming) as well as Elden Ring: Nightreign not having a proton version that allows both controller use/steam overlay use AND HDR, but I can live with that one.
Huge fan of Linux so far and some quirks of Windows now being gone, I deleted my Windows partition and won't be looking back! Thanks y'all for being so welcoming!