Pretty sure it’s always been like that. You technically can enable secure boot, but to my understanding updates will force you to set up custom keys again, and I’m fairly sure Nvidia refuses to release drivers that can be signed.

https://burakberk.dev/complete-guide-enabling-secure-boot-with-linux-and-windows-dual-boot-setup/

I have many drives. Some games won’t run if Linux is installed anywhere, however.

I don’t think I want to retry at this point until I get a different GPU - I definitely appreciate the offer though. I also forgot to mention that I produce music mainly in Ableton, and have a ton of third party plugins.

In case it helps someone:

Current specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
• RAM: 32.0 GB DDR4
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

I’ve tried several distros over the years, and since ~2022 have tested arch, pop!, and nixOS. NixOS was definitely my favourite, but I’d have graphical issues in web browsers, never mind games.

Some games have sort of worked, but they always ran SUBSTANTIALLY worse than they do on windows. Even games with legitimate Linux versions like Factorio looked like shit. It’s hard to describe, but i always had weird horizontal tearing/delay patterns in the games (didn’t look like a v-sync issue to me).

I generally try the different versions of whatever the newest drivers are for my GPU at the time. I used to have a 1070, then a 3070, then a 4070. I have always had the same issues on the distros i have tried in the past as well (primarily ubuntu).

Thankfully i have switched to an ultrawide monitor now, but back when i had two monitors with different resolutions it was an absolute nightmare.

I would love to be able to dual boot again, but without being able to sign the bootloader for anti-cheat without an insane recurring time commitment, i’m not really interested currently. And i know id end up wasting 10s or 100s of hours debugging things that shouldn’t be broken in the first place.

They take your money so they can finger blast your kids OR watch child porn OR rape people

Because despite what people say Linux doesn’t “just work” with nvidia, I can’t afford an AMD GPU right now, and because the people I know only want to play games with kernel level BS.

Meanwhile my windows PC restarts if I launch a game with kernel level anti-cheat, after updating my GPU driver a few months ago. Just tried the new driver, instant reboot.

MS and Nvidia are fucking entirely made of vibe-coding morons, and apparently testing is no longer needed.

My cat every night at 2 AM

The game for this bad boy went hard

Doom?

That’s fair… but also Elden Ring had so many cave dungeons that used the same layout it was painful by the end

Having more people in a country who enjoy voting for genocide isn’t exactly sabotage

Doesn’t just look like it

33/2 + 7 = 23.5

That’s a no

“Completely fake news, our specialists determined the footage is AI generated”

Where is Bo when the world needs him most

Finger gun list? 100% AI

Technically every that happens on a computer is a bit flip 😏

What happened to the download buttons?

Bin Laden was just a Hollywood actor hired by the CIA, man, the whole thing was staged /s

Fair enough.

It’s crazy that Epstein is easy to include in 9/11 conspiracies now too, considering his link to Lutnick (too lazy to spell check his name), who didn’t go into work on 9/11 when like 600 of his employees died. Not to mention Epstein’s ties to royals, presidents, and allegedly the Mossad. The who thing is so fertile for conspiracy theories that it basically grows itself.