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PSN downtime compensation criticised by PlayStation fans without PS Plus who were still unable to play games (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I want to swap my alienware aurora to linux but I'm struggling to find a distro that I know will be compatible with my hardware. Is there a list for bazzite driver support? I'm sure all my hardware will work in most linux distros geared toward gaming but it'd be nice to have some assurance beforehand.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Just a suggestion: try installing on a spare drive first, and disconnect the original ones

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

That's the plan no matter what but always glad to hear from the voices of experience.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Only thing that is iffy usually is Nvidia. A big caveat is that Bazzite doesn't support Nvidia for now. Agree with the other commenter, put it on another partition and try it out

[–] robador51@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It does support nvidia, I'm running bazzite and its fine on my laptop with nvidia

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not gamescope though, which I would assume most people who use Bazzite would expect

[–] PunkiBas@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They DO support nvidia in every other way though, so your first statement is still false.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 18 hours ago

JFC okay, yes, if you cut out the primary use case of Bazzite and ignore the warning on their home page where they explain that they don't really support it then yes I guess so. Ffs I was trying to save a new user frustration and disappointment fuck me right?

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Easiest way would be to either dual boot with a test partition, or if you have a spare SSD, just replace the current SSD with the spare and install Linux on that.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Using an old spare as a test is a good idea.

And to think, my wife mocks my hoard of old parts, cables, adapters, etc. Who's laughing now? It matters not that it grows at an inverse rate at which it is depleted...I did say hoard, did I not?

Yeah...ok, so try it with a spare. Sounds good.