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I wanted to swap to Pop!OS a few months ago, but since i'm an Nvidia user, I am waiting until Wayland plays nice with Nvidias drivers regarding explicit sync and everything gets rolled into Pop!OS.
I always was a Windows user because games, but with ProtonGE the "games" argument started falling flat, and MS is getting more and more intrusive. I do like VRR and Multimonitor setups tho, so X seemed like a poor choice, and Wayland/Nvidia is just not ready yet.
God I want to move to Linux, but I had some problems with games unfortunately. They would run fine, but had stutters. And some of them didn't run, granted it was from an "unlicenced" source.
Still I'm gonna try again, I have to succeed eventually.
Amusingly enough, the steam deck has made a lot of the state of this art get better. Usually if you mount the ISO and then tell Lutris to install it, it'll work.
I deleted my original reply to your comment because I didn't realize it was the repacks that were to blame and installing some of them really is a pain. I did try again and after a lot of tinkering and fixing it's going fine for now. Steam and gog games run well so far.
I know that this might be pointless commenting now on this thread, but I felt like I had to right my wrong.
Yeah, that depends really. In my experience it wasn't that simple. Usually they would install but wouldn't run at all or can't install because of iskin.dll or some such nonsense. I really tried to make it work but it wasn't simple for me like many claim to be, which is a shame because I really do like Linux but this is just exhausting. I like to tinker with software and I learned over the years to make things work, but I wouldn't call this tinkering, this is just lost cause for me.
Looks like we’re going to have to wait until May 15th for NVIDIA’s Beta drivers (555.xx) to add support for the recently merged explicit sync wayland protocol, but at least progress is being made to finally get these issues fixed.
If Wine on wayland were ready we wouldn’t depend on that merge request since the major compositors have already implemented the protocol, but I’m hopeful it won’t take long for XWayland to support it too since all threads were resolved and CI is already passing there.