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So I've been running Windows on my gaming system and Linux on my laptop for Uni for a while. I chose this to discourage working instead of relaxing, or gaming instead of working. However, I am finding that I often get the opportunity to work from home and I find it easier to just use my laptop on the go (I have a dual monitor setup + kvm switch so its a little annoying to have to come home and run 3 cables just for some extra screen realestate).

I want them to run the same OS so I can use the same tools and workflow. I use Ubuntu 23.04 on my laptop, W11 on my PC. I have nvidia GPU's in both (1660 Super Desktop and 3050 Laptop), so installing and maintaining drivers would ideally be easy. I would use Ubuntu but I plan to move away from it since they're moving away from .debs. Any recommendations? I am looking for stability, but something I can game on. I've never had a linux gaming pc so I don't know how much that changes things. I don't want to do much tinkering, I am more of a set an forget type.

I generally prefer Gnome, XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Mate in that order. I looked it up and a lot of the games I play are Proton DB Gold or up. The only game with an anticheat that I play is the MCC and I'll just disable the anticheat if its an issue.

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[-] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Installing nvidia drivers on opensuse was a major pain in the ass for me.

[-] HorseFD@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What issue did you have? It was very straight forward for me. Nvidia have a repo specifically for OpenSUSE. You just need to add the repo and install the driver.

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

First Iinstalled, and then my system wouldnt boot into gui. And then I fixed it by doing a btrfs rollback and then couldn't uninstall the nvidiai repo no matter what I did and it would get installed with zypper dup.

[-] HorseFD@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You can also manage repos with Yast which is one of the best things about OpenSUSE.

It’s possible the driver version wasn’t the right for your card.

The guide on the OpenSUSE wiki is worth reading: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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