When steamos 3.0 Comes out , do you need amd videocard for best performance?

[CR0NO]

So i have a old i5 office pc with a GeForce 1030 low profile slammed into it, wich has been my steambox for steamos 2.0. now the performance on 2.0 isnt all that's great compared to Windows (why i have duelboot). Luckily steamos 3.0 with proton is looking to climb the FPS gap and be the same (and sometimes even faster) then Windows with FPS. However i Read allot online how its mostly best suited for AMD graphics cards for best performance in Linux, so i was wondering:

- by the time steamos 3.0 is launched for desktop pc's , do i really need to switch to a AMD low profile hou card or would my Nvidia ge1030 low profile be Just as good? Or does proton really work worse with Intel or Nvidia ? Just curious. Thnx for reading

[Carlsberg]

No, you only need an nvidia. Why would you choose anything else? makes no sense!

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Why do people ever care or use SteamOS, period?
Like give me ONE good reason. Oh wait, there is no such thing.
Go download Linux distro of choice and do a clean install. Its this simple.
Don't let Valve dumb-down any of your PCs and make you wait around.
They don't even care for the general public to have SteamOS. It's obvious.
There is also not a dam thing special about it. It's Linux with BigPictureMode; so the F what.

[Omega]

As long as SteamOS supplies the Nvidia drivers it doesn't really matter.

The main difference will be that AMD and Intel graphics hardware just works as they have open source drivers in the Linux kernel. Nvidia only supplies proprietary drivers, Valve has to package and ship these drivers for SteamOS. Valve might decide not to package these drivers for SteamOS.

SteamOS's immutable filesystem makes it so that Nvidia drivers have to be either included by default or you will have to manually disable the immutability and install the drivers yourself. Disabling the immutability makes the system less stable and gives it a higher chance of breaking.

Unless you are using a Steam Deck and just want a simplified and stable gaming experience you will probably be better off with another Linux distribution. I recommend Pop!_OS at it includes the Nvidia drivers by default making it the easiest to install Linux distribution for Nvidia users.

[_I_]

or better off installing linux or windows and using steam client

if it a weak pc, it wont play games very well on its own
if you have a better gaming pc, you can stream games from it to many devices
laptop, pi3+, android phone/box, link, tv, nvidia shield and some other devices

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If the system is too old to run Win10 smoothly and run the games you have. Then maybe consider Chrome OS FLEX

[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

No, you only need an nvidia. Why would you choose anything else? makes no sense!

Because Nvidia doesn't care about linux users and never has. Only AMD gives real support.

[The Investigator]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Why do people ever care or use SteamOS, period?
Like give me ONE good reason. Oh wait, there is no such thing.
Go download Linux distro of choice and do a clean install. Its this simple.
Don't let Valve dumb-down any of your PCs and make you wait around.
They don't even care for the general public to have SteamOS. It's obvious.
There is also not a dam thing special about it. It's Linux with BigPictureMode; so the F what.

SteamOS 2.0, yeah I agree with you it's just straight up Debian with steam in big picture mode. Only benefit is if your setting up a set top box under your TV and want to have even login handled by a controller, eg building your own Xstation/Playbox (but even that I recalled you could download the steam compositor on any distro you liked and set it up).

With SteamOS 3.0 if it supports you hardware it might be a more stable way to take advantage of Arch then Manjaro. I rolled with Manjaro from 2019 until a few weeks ago, but kept having to reinstall every 6 months because running updates would render my system unbootable (something I hadn't seen on Ubuntu and Debian) without a clean install or chrooting which was the same if not more effort. So I got a separate boot ssd for Manjaro and just reinstalled when it happened. I came across this steam thread first when I was trying to see if it had Nvidia support according to this https://github.com/theVakhovskeIsTaken/holoiso yes, but only after install. Which means my system probably wouldn't get to the installer, because my system hangs when the iso doesn't have the necessary non free firmware. Only three distros I have successfully booted to the installer on my GTX 1060 are Manjaro, Pop!_OS, and Debian 11 with a non-free firmware iso from their site. So far others crash during startup even with nomodeset.

[The Investigator]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

No, you only need an nvidia. Why would you choose anything else? makes no sense!

Because Nvidia doesn't care about linux users and never has. Only AMD gives real support.

This might be more semantics, but Nvidia does give support in the form of non-free firmware and drivers. Which works fine and still gives better performance then under Window 10. Only three obstacles you run into:

1) You are limited to only a few distros still sympathetic to Nvidia users.

2) Every now and again the Kernel devs go on a holly war with Nvidia and you can't update your kernel until everything calms down again.

3) wayland probably won't work (it doesn't with my GTX 1060)

Though honestly I don't see much benefit in running wayland even if I had an AMD. With x11, virtualGL, and tigervnc (just to setup multi-sessioning and virtual displays) I can share my gpu across multiple networked users via steam in home streaming. My desktop is the only computer in the house hold with a dedicated video card, I use this some times so my siblings can play games with me that their laptops can't run. When all three of us play together off this one card we get about 60fps at 1080p in most games (when I'm alone I can take advantage of my 144hz monitor).