• FeminalPanda@lemmings.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    I’m doing my part. Had a 2nd desktop worth of parts and put latest Ubuntu on it, trying out games that I have already installed on Windows. Once my game pass sub expires next year I’ll probably fully switch over.

  • maxxxxpower@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Just made the switch to Linux Mint today. It has been fairly easy and painless thus far.

    I’m doing my part!

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    I’m genuinely concerned about https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky (wine for mac). If they make games run well on mac, there’ll be less of a chance for mac users to want to switch to linux in order to game.

    And when windows users get burned by windows 12, they’ll most likely switch to a Mac if gaming works on it.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      I don’t think Mac uses will switch to Linux for playing games, they’d either use Windows or play whatever is available on macOS.

      But yeah, if gaming on macOS ever gets close to gaming in Windows, I can see some Windows users moving to macOS. But honestly, I also see that as a good thing for Linux gaming since the lower Windows market share is, the more game devs need to cater to the smaller platforms. Also, Apple hardware is expensive enough and hardware limited enough that I don’t see macOS ever really catering to high end gaming, so people who don’t want Windows but do want a higher end gaming experience would flock to Linux.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            I meant Mac users specifically. Regular Windows users would probably be less annoyed by Windows on a ROG Ally but SteamOS is the closest thing to an Apple experience for PC games.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              Perhaps. I haven’t used the ROG Ally or any of the Windows-based PC handhelds, so I can only speak for how much I enjoy my Steam Deck.

              That said, the “Apple experience” would be a Switch. It just works, looks sleek, and it costs way more than it should given the hardware specs. Yeah, it’s not a PC handheld, but that’s where I’d expect most Apple users to go for games.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      The GPU portion of the M chips is still crap by comparison to what AMD offers. The CPU part they genuinely deserve credit for but that’s it.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Who knows, maybe they’ll all of a sudden decide to invest in that if Maccies find out they can play games, but are unsatisfied with the performance. Anything can happen.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          From what I’ve heard the GPU in the newest, most expensive iPhones is okay and a good step up but the chip in Macs is basically the same as in iPhones, just more cores, more memory, and not power constrained because of cooling. I think it’s pretty clear that Apple develops these for iPhone first and Macs are just an afterthought.

          • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            If that’s the case, then there is no danger - for now. But if Apple’s CEO wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and says “I want to tear up the gaming industry”, he totally could.

  • CucumberFetish@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    0·
    7 months ago

    Looking to reinstall Linux on my dual-boot. For legacy robotics reasons, I still have ubuntu 18.04 on it.

    Which distro would be the best for gaming + CUDA software dev?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      That take depends on what you need from Ubuntu 18.04. I’m not to familiar with how robotics stuff works, but perhaps a docker image would work? That way you can keep whatever libraries you need, and run it on whatever base OS you need. That said, I don’t know how much of CUDA or whatever is in the driver vs the userland library, so I’m not sure if it would work.

      As for distro, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s relatively decent. I recommend Linux Mint Debian edition, but I personally use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

      I saw a question below about Tumbleweed, and you may want to look into OBS, which is OpenSUSE’s way of building whatever libraries you need in a repo. So you’d basically find or build a recipe for your version of CUDA and install that alongside whatever else is in the system (assuming the Docker option doesn’t work). If you’re using a relatively popular stack, chances are someone has already gotten it working.