Valve's Proton 8.0 Update Brings More Games to Linux

[DrCR]

RDNA2 cards are a really good value for Linux gaming. Out of the box support for RDNA3 isn't universal yet. Pop in any of the RX6000 series and game on.

Hum. I may try to get a 6600 when RDNA3 comes how and hopefully pushes the old stock prices down a notch. If I can get a good 6600 for, say, $200, I'll be satisfied with that.

Yeah, this is in their readme:

Q: I have an NVIDIA Geforce Card, can I use it?

A: No. Not even questionable. If you have an NVIDIA GPU, You're on your own. Latest Valve updates for Steam client including normal and Jupiter bootstraps have broken gamepadui on NVIDIA GPUs, and if so, no support will be provided for you.

Wow. How the times have changed. I've been running Linux on Nvidia since GeForce 4.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Wow. How the times have changed. I've been running Linux on Nvidia since GeForce 4.

Keep in mind, this is Valve's SteamDeck version of the OS and it's very streamlined. It does not need NVidia kernel drivers because the SteamDeck is entirely AMD based. It would be easy for them to recompile the kernel with NVidia/Intel drivers if they decided too.