| 16 Oct 2024 |
 vinylen | Hey! Looking to both upgrade my PC's graphics card and switch from Bazzite to NixOS for gaming. I have a RTX 3080 today, what is the general consensus regarding Linux/NixOS and GPUs for gaming? Has Nvidia's new drivers been up to snuff or is it recommended to but a AMD graphics card? Mainly looking at RX 7900 TXT in that case | 06:36:41 |
 K900 | In reply to@vinylen:matrix.org
Hey! Looking to both upgrade my PC's graphics card and switch from Bazzite to NixOS for gaming. I have a RTX 3080 today, what is the general consensus regarding Linux/NixOS and GPUs for gaming? Has Nvidia's new drivers been up to snuff or is it recommended to but a AMD graphics card? Mainly looking at RX 7900 TXT in that case Generally AMD is preferred, but also, do you really need to upgrade from a 3080 | 07:06:29 |
| K900 | Like it's what, a 20-25% uplift at most | 07:06:57 |
| vinylen | No not really, i was literally looking at how much of a performance boost i would get to upgrade from RTX 3080, and yeah it's not a whole lot | 07:07:50 |
| vinylen | But good to know AMD is generally preferred | 07:08:04 |
| K900 | Nvidia will work | 07:08:23 |
| K900 | Like it'll probably work about as well as it did on Bazzite | 07:08:34 |
| K900 | There's nothing NixOS specific there really | 07:08:48 |
| vinylen | Got it, thanks K900. Any recommended DE or just choose whatever i prefer between gnome/plasma? | 07:09:31 |
| K900 | But if you're going to give money to a vendor, I'd rather give it to a vendor that actually invests in the stack | 07:09:53 |
| K900 | So | 07:09:56 |
| K900 | In reply to@vinylen:matrix.org
Got it, thanks K900. Any recommended DE or just choose whatever i prefer between gnome/plasma? Shouldn't really matter | 07:10:05 |
| K900 | @Atemu so I'm an idiot | 16:34:04 |
| K900 | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/348973 | 16:34:05 |
 Atemu | Oh. | 16:34:25 |
| K900 | Turns out we just copy /var | 16:34:28 |
| K900 | And we can just like | 16:34:31 |
| K900 | Not | 16:34:32 |
| K900 | Do that | 16:34:33 |
| Atemu | That also means we do, in effect, have filtering which dirs get linked? | 16:35:20 |
| K900 | Yes | 16:35:33 |
| Atemu | Hm :/ | 16:36:11 |
| K900 | Hm indeed | 16:36:38 |
| K900 | But I think this change should be fine? | 16:36:41 |
| K900 | Just as a minimally invasive fix | 16:36:49 |
| Atemu | Already ahead of you ;) | 16:36:51 |
| K900 | And honestly the rest of that setup is kind of a fuck | 16:37:03 |
| K900 | It could be like 20x more symlinker | 16:37:12 |
| Atemu | Yeah, in dire need of a refactor | 16:37:15 |
| K900 | I'm not doing it | 16:38:32 |
