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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm scared of screwing up the install and not being able to play my current vice videogame (Marvel Rivals).

My laptop is a MSI Cyborg 15 A13V.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Marvel Rivals has a gold rating on ProtonDB (meaning it works usually without tinkering).

    If you're concerned about drivers, use Bazzite as your distro. It manages drivers automatically and comes preinstalled with support for pretty much anything on Steam. In addition to being a highly polished distro with strong gamer presentation.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Adding to that, drivers are basically a non-issue in 99% of the cases by now. Linux has really outdone themselves on that.

    Case and point, I plugged in an audio interface into Linux after installing a DAW and pipewire and it just worked out of the box.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, the install for most distros is pretty hard to screw up, just be careful about your Nvidia drivers. I've had bad luck with laptops with Nvidia in past, but actually running the game in Linux (at least from steam/proton) should be pretty seamless.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, my laptop's drivers is what makes me nervous.

    Actually learning a new OS? Nah, I can get around that.

    Same way I been learning to use Matrix/set it up for friends.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Use a distro that has automated install of the drivers. MX Linux was just running a provided program (that ran in a terminal but eh) and rebooting, and off I went gaming. I think some of the other gaming-specific distros can also install them for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Any issues with the GPU drivers switching between integrated and discrete? That's what I was having issues with on my last laptop, didn't really have too much else as a problem, and why I often hesitate to recommend people with laptops running Nvidia graphics to switch too quickly for that reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not that I've noticed. It's a 1060 vs an old Intel integrated, so I'd hope I'd immediately notice a game running like sludge, although I've been staying away from truly demanding ones on it.

    Only thing that's annoying is the USB4 dock crashes the laptop if I unplug it, but my limited research on that is pointing at a Wayland bug, something about a display's frame buffer disappearing.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Huh, interesting. My old laptop was on x (i3wm), so I mostly had issues with that, and how the GPU would have to spin up if any of the usb c ports were being used, as they ran through the GPU (stupid design). Thankfully I don't really have to worry about Nvidia anymore, new laptop (which is actually older) only has Intel integrated (specifically wanted to get away from Nvidia) and the desktop has an AMD gpu.

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