As linux becomes more user-friendly and game developers add linux support, the biggest question – outside of what physical card to buy – seems to be graphics driver performance.. Linux users have long had a love-hate relationship with nvidia. on the one hand, nvidia’s proprietary graphics drivers have always been the best-performing ones for linux gaming. on the other. These hardware drivers are generally part of the linux kernel, although bits of graphics drivers are part of xorg (the graphics system), and printer drivers are included with cups (the print system). that means most of the available hardware drivers are already on your computer, included along with the kernel, graphics server, and print server..
(intel graphics drivers are already open-source and included with the linux kernel). getting proprietary drivers, also known as “restricted” driver, used to be tricky or fiddly, but these days it’s straightforward.. Third-party graphics driver, such as nvidia proprietary graphics driver for linux
