Do you think you would have those issues that you are reporting if you were using AMD or Intel GPUs?

Problem is not Bazzite or Linux, problem is Nvidia. If we need to be honest, we should avoid Nvidia.

I feel that “works” is a very broad term. It can work but doesn’t mean that it will perform even or better in a good amount of games compared to Nvidia on Windows or AMD in Linux or Windows. Issues depends on specific games that one plays, one may be playing games that aren’t prone for those issues reported.

Not sure if I should install in a personal laptop Libre Office or Collabora. Can someone sums it up to help?

So, what is the point of the TPM “rant” if it has great use?

Are we saying here that using Linux + TPM = recommended, using Microsoft + TPM = burn?

Very uninformed person here and a genuine question. Isn’t TPM endorsed by respected security projects such as GrapheneOS, I mean the Titan chip isn’t some type of TPM equivalent for computers and one of the main reasons GrapheneOS doesn’t support other phones that aren’t Pixel?

How do you handle the closed source applications installations for your dad without friction?

I had some good rate of satisfaction (anecdotal empirical and personal) with Silverblue. Good support for UKI + Secure Boot + TPM2 + SELinux. All of that transparent to end user, and we can roll back stuff quite easy with the Atomic philosophy.

Those were experiments conducted on Lenovo and Dell laptops that have good Linux support with continuous firmware updates via fwupd.

Personally, I use Arch, btw. Not a big fan on the relation of companies with distros.

“In KDE Linux, we build the base system out of Arch packages, but freeze the contents and take responsibility for the result being functional; we don’t offload responsibility onto the user.”

Is this the same that Manjaro does?

It was just a just a joke. Slackware is a dinosaur.

For phone? Android? Do you need to translate photos (restaurant menus, signs on the street, etc…)?

Stay with DeepL

I’d stay away from Yandex. Former user here is excellent but: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

What about Slackware? Not popular anymore?

I see that Windscribe was included. Their price tier is always in promotion so I’d take that in consideration.

Also, they have app for Linux: https://windscribe.com/features/linux/

It is not in Electron like many others. It is native Linux.

Are you sure that the DX12 performance loss is already addressed on Nvidia GPUs? Do you have a source?

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1nr4tva/does_the_nvidia_dx12_bug_20ish_performance_loss/

They are the proprietary drivers from NVIDIA that should now “just work” across kernel upgrades (like AMD has forever).

Are you sure that is how it works for AMD in Linux?

I’d go with Linux, no matter what, but this seem exactly why I feel that we should be more clear. People may be building some PCs out there to use Linux for gaming and buying Nvidia because others keep saying that everything is smooth sails with Nvidia. A lot of it is working now but there are some downsides and the recommendation is to go with AMD if you can.

Thanks. That is what I thought but is good to confirm if we are not missing something.

That is a fair reason and a good remind actually. Thanks!

There isn’t a global 30% performance loss. There are specific games/configurations that have performance issues and bugs, but it isn’t all games.

That was not what I said. I don’t recall saying that there is a global 30% performance loss. I’m sorry if I gave margin for that interpretation.

There are always bugs and performance issues that appear and get fixed, that’s the nature of Linux.

This one in particular seem to be taking some time for Nvidia to fix.

This is not the case now, NVIDIA works without major issues.

I don’t think I was implying that it doesn’t work. My point is that for certain games that relies on certain technologies the Nvidia drivers are not optimized to reach Windows level or even AMD level on Linux for equivalents cards. It may worth reviewing the Nvidia forum link that I posted first.

I still give the benefit of the doubt that I may be missing something and need to learn better something although I’m not following your reasoning completely.

Finally, I just want to also point that I don’t have strings attached to any GPU maker. I wish we had more options but it sounds that if we want something reasonable with good open source driver support for many different types of combinations of games, hardware and technology, AMD seems our only choice in Linux given this incidental bad performance present on DX12 combined with Nvidia GPUs on Linux.

So are you saying that those are false claims?

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207

Sorry the Reddit links: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1nr4tva/does_the_nvidia_dx12_bug_20ish_performance_loss/

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/179t3zi/i_dont_think_this_has_been_talked_about_enough_if/

As you can see people report this from 2 years ago and also 14 days ago.