Linux for Gaming Rig

[nafukgt]

I want to build a pc that screams power. It has R5 3600, 32GB RAM, RTX 3070, and M.2 SSD. My question is : "Is there any driver for RTX 3070 on Linux? and How do I game on Linux?" I know everyone's saying that I'm stupid but I have a clear reasons about it. Windows 10 is so buggy, not virus resistant, unstable, even the UI & the Cursor hurts my eyes worse than I play Free Fire

[Electronics Wizardy]

There should be a driver for linux on or near launch. Might need to manually install it though if it isn't on the repos yet.

[Slottr]

Drivers I'm sure won't be very good, as they arent currently. I'd strongly recommend an AMD card- even if you have to wait

[nafukgt]

and how do i game on that machine if it runs linux? i dont want to broke my ssd

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, nafukgt said:

and how do i game on that machine if it runs linux? i dont want to broke my ssd

What do you mean you don't want to break your ssd?

 

Where do you get your games? If you use something like steam its pretty easy to make it work on linux.

[igormp]

nvidia usually has day 1 support for linux.

 

About gaming, you can just install steam.

[nafukgt]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What do you mean you don't want to break your ssd?

 

Where do you get your games? If you use something like steam its pretty easy to make it work on linux.

windows 10 has a bug that break your drives -_

so i thought why dont we chose ubuntu or others

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, nafukgt said:

windows 10 has a bug that break your drives -_

so i thought why dont we chose ubuntu or others

that doesn't really break your drives, it just puts a bit more writes on them. Writes won't be a issue for almost all consumer devices, don't worry about it.

 

Linux does stuff like trim fine, so it will make the ssd work to its full file span

[NTDaws]

2 minutes ago, nafukgt said:

windows 10 has a bug that break your drives -_

so i thought why dont we chose ubuntu or others

All it does it write more data to the drive but that shouldn't cause any issues for the average issue. Also you do realize if you switch to linux you get less support for game titles. While there is proton, there is still many games that aren't compatible. Modern Warfare is one of them.

[Vishera]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

that doesn't really break your drives, it just puts a bit more writes on them. Writes won't be a issue for almost all consumer devices, don't worry about it.

Writes wear out SSDs.

As for hard drives it doesn't matter,

[Fatih19]

Depends on the game you play, some games just won't work due to anti-cheat.

[nafukgt]

1 minute ago, Dawson Wehage said:

All it does it write more data to the drive but that shouldn't cause any issues for the average issue. Also you do realize if you switch to linux you get less support for game titles. While there is proton, there is still many games that aren't compatible. Modern Warfare is one of them.

yea i know abt that but i need power to do everything like school project and gaming and i found that linux is good for both productivity and gaming. at least i need to download minecraft, optifine, and seus ptgi for shader

[Fatih19]

Just now, nafukgt said:

yea i know abt that but i need power to do everything like school project and gaming and i found that linux is good for both productivity and gaming. at least i need to download minecraft, optifine, and seus ptgi for shader

Look, if you want to use linux just because of your personal preferences, that's fine. Just know that some games aren't going to work with it, especially ones with anti-cheat. And this is coming from a Linux user.

[nafukgt]

does fall guys or among us or geometry dash work in linux? i want to play those game in my next gaming rig

[Fatih19]

21 minutes ago, nafukgt said:

does fall guys or among us or geometry dash work in linux? i want to play those game in my next gaming rig

Check them here. https://www.protondb.com/

[FlameNeo16]

hey there new member on the forums ive known about this forum for a while ive just recently like a few minutes ago started using it, ime considering moving to linux but being a long time windows user vista-windows 10 ime not really not that knowlegable of anything out side of windows.one of the reason i want to move away from windows ime tired of the defaullt theme and ive also heard performance can be much better on linux compared to windows.

[nafukgt]

8 hours ago, FlameNeo16 said:

hey there new member on the forums ive known about this forum for a while ive just recently like a few minutes ago started using it, ime considering moving to linux but being a long time windows user vista-windows 10 ime not really not that knowlegable of anything out side of windows.one of the reason i want to move away from windows ime tired of the defaullt theme and ive also heard performance can be much better on linux compared to windows.

first, linux is faster and less buggy than windows

second, if you dont know how to use linux, the forum and the community can help you

third, linux is customable with your preferences

[Alexeygridnev1993]

On 9/8/2020 at 1:51 AM, nafukgt said:

yea i know abt that but i need power to do everything like school project and gaming and i found that linux is good for both productivity and gaming. at least i need to download minecraft, optifine, and seus ptgi for shader

If you're really worried about your SSD longevity, just set the smallest possible swap partition while installing Linux (like, 1-2 Gb) and set swappiness to 0:

https://sites.google.com/site/tipsandtricksforubuntu/system-tips/swappiness

That will ensure swap partition is not used at all until you literally ran out of RAM.

Windows doesn't "break" SSDs but it does use swap file way too much, which might decrease its longevity, that's true.

As for gaming, at this point, only games with anti-cheat software don't work on Linux (and you shouldn't be playing those games anyway, as any anti-cheat software demands full kernel control, which opens up a huge privacy and security hole).

[FlameNeo16]

ty very much