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"I want to be able to use my expensive hardware for the reason I purchased it in the first place" seems like a pretty solid argument to me.
This is where I am. There are a lot of fancy features that modern graphics cards have that I want to make sure work with all my AAA titles. I have a Linux laptop for near everything that isn’t a game.
I know there’s a lot of people on Lemmy that feel differently, but I am a bit of a bleeding edge graphics whore. I like my raytracing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Does raytracing not work on Linux for you?
Not sure what the situation is on the NVIDIA side, but Mesa's raytracing performance is... lacking. Don't get me wrong; it's amazing that it works as well as it does, but even with a high-end card it's not the best experience. I don't personally care much about RT, but if I were more into it I would probably consider setting up a Windows dual-boot.
Nvidia's proprietary Linux drivers are effectively equal to their Windows drivers
I could only find "beta" drivers that were new enough to run Veilguard, which was annoying. I had to add some other ppa thing. Not a big deal, but would scare off some users.
This sort of thing is deeply distro dependent. Pop_OS and Linux Mint handle Nvidia drivers pretty seamlessly, for instance
I'm on Mint. It only offered up to version 550 and veilguard needed 565, if I recall
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=433321 was more or less my problem.
Ah, I see. My understanding is that AMD's raytracing is just subpar compared to Nvidia, no matter what system you're using, so I dunno what positive performance changes you'd see either way.