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Vista 10 Wiped, GNU/Linux Replaces It for Games; Gaming on Linux With an Nvidia GPU Called "Solid"
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XDA ☛ I turned my old but perfectly functional Windows 10 laptop into a portable Steam Machine
The upcoming Steam Machine is a very exciting product for PC gamers in an era when people seem more and more eager to move away from Windows. Valve has already contributed significantly to making that transition easier by developing the Proton translation layer and encouraging developers to optimize their games for the Steam Deck, which also runs on Linux.
But unlike the Steam Deck, the Steam Machine is very much just another PC that isn't doing a whole lot that's new aside from running SteamOS, so you can realistically just turn your existing PC into a Steam Machine. And if you have an old Windows 10 PC at risk of being decommissioned, that may just be the best solution. So that's what I did, and the results were... interesting.
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XDA ☛ I tried gaming on Linux with an Nvidia GPU, and it's actually pretty solid
Gaming on Linux has been a hot topic since the introduction of the Steam Deck back in 2022, which set the standard for a handheld gaming experience on PCs. That standard has yet to be met by its Windows counterparts, which is why handhelds such as the Lenovo Legion Go S came in a SteamOS variant in addition to Windows.
But as great as Linux can be for gaming, it's highly dependent on hardware support, and Nvidia has historically been frustrating due to using proprietary drivers that can sometimes lag behind what could be done with open-source projects. Things have been improving somewhat, though, and what better way to find out the current state of Linux gaming on Nvidia than to try it out for myself? So I did just that, and the results are actually not terrible.