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I've always wondered how good proton is when the hardware is less standardized than a console/pc hybrid. Can you really just slap in any modern x86 CPU and Nvidia Card and just go? How's driver handling? It's been years since I've used a linux desktop environment, so I'd be coming to it with navigational/file-handling skills in terminal alone.
What? You just have to install the proprietary drivers, they work perfectly fine. I get that if you don't want any proprietary stuff NDIVIA is not the best experience (opensource drivers are not good because of lack of support) but I'd hardly call that a huge mess.
Not the open source nvidia drivers. They don't support reclocking so there's no way to get any useable results for gaming (and if not for gaming, why use an nvidia gpu anyway? Compute isn't supported in nouveau anyway).
Edit: typo
The open source Nvidia drivers are part of Mesa. You were talking about RADV and RadeonSI, the open-source AMD drivers in Mesa.
They're an extra thing you have to install, which makes them less plug and play than AMD, but a huge mess? It's far from being that bad nowadays
Not an extra thing that you have to install, an extra thing that you have to maintain, forever, instead of just letting the OS do it for you. Have you never borked your main machine with a flubbed driver update? Or found that, uh oh, you broke CUDA last time you upgraded and didn't notice until you tried to do some work?
No, I didn't. I installed the driver once, same with cuda, and I let the system updates to the rest.
And guess what, it actually does just work™