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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm rolling a 1080 on Bazzite and it's worked great for me, as well as NVIDIA does on Linux generally. Which is to say, much better than it was 2+ years ago but still could do with some improvements.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Same here also on a 1080, but with the closed-source drivers. There's some issue they've had for at least the 6ish months I've been using it where with my dual screen setup sometimes hangs. Apparently it's a known bug and they haven't fixed it. It hits me about once every couple of weeks these days. Other than that it has run every game I've tried as well as Windows.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yeah, I know the one you mean. It seems to be intermittently fixed but I've just rolled-back when it causes issues.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It seems better now than it was a few months ago. Back then it actually locked up my machine if I triggered the bug. Now it just temporarily slows things down.

But, I haven't gambled on running a few apps that would regularly trigger it just in case. What's funny is that modern Steam games are no problem, but it's running emulated games using Emulation Station that causes problems. Games from 2024, no problem. Games from 1984? Hey, that's pushing it.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Emulation is a hell of a drug...

[–] Entertain529@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That's promising to hear! For the drivers are you using Open GPU?

I still have to look into the 1080s compatibility with this. Thanks OP for mentioning it.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Turing or newer. 20XX or 16XX and newer.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago

Like the other poster said, the open drivers aren't for the 10-series and earlier. It's because the microcode that NVIDIA wants to keep proprietary is within the GPU on later series, rather than the driver.