For phone? Android? Do you need to translate photos (restaurant menus, signs on the street, etc…)?
Stay with DeepL
I’d stay away from Yandex. Former user here is excellent but: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/
What about Slackware? Not popular anymore?
I see that Windscribe was included. Their price tier is always in promotion so I’d take that in consideration.
Also, they have app for Linux: https://windscribe.com/features/linux/
It is not in Electron like many others. It is native Linux.
Are you sure that the DX12 performance loss is already addressed on Nvidia GPUs? Do you have a source?
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207
They are the proprietary drivers from NVIDIA that should now “just work” across kernel upgrades (like AMD has forever).
Are you sure that is how it works for AMD in Linux?
I’d go with Linux, no natter what, but this seem exactly why I feel that we should be more clear. People may be building some PCs out there because others keep saying that everything is smooth sails with Nvidia. A lot of it is working now but there are some downsides and the recommendation is to go with AMD if you can.
Thanks. That is what I thought but is good to confirm if we are not missing something.
That is a fair reason and a good remind actually. Thanks!
There isn’t a global 30% performance loss. There are specific games/configurations that have performance issues and bugs, but it isn’t all games.
That was not what I said. I don’t recall saying that there is a global 30% performance loss. I’m sorry if I gave margin for that interpretation.
There are always bugs and performance issues that appear and get fixed, that’s the nature of Linux.
This one in particular seem to be taking some time for Nvidia to fix.
This is not the case now, NVIDIA works without major issues.
I don’t think I was implying that it doesn’t work. My point is that for certain games that relies on certain technologies the Nvidia drivers are not optimized to reach Windows level or even AMD level on Linux for equivalents cards. It may worth reviewing the Nvidia forum link that I posted first.
I still give the benefit of the doubt that I may be missing something and need to learn better something although I’m not following your reasoning completely.
Finally, I just want to also point that I don’t have strings attached to any GPU maker. I wish we had more options but it sounds that if we want something reasonable with good open source driver support for many different types of combinations of games, hardware and technology, AMD seems our only choice in Linux given this incidental bad performance present on DX12 combined with Nvidia GPUs on Linux.
So are you saying that those are false claims?
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207
Sorry the Reddit links: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1nr4tva/does_the_nvidia_dx12_bug_20ish_performance_loss/
As you can see people report this from 2 years ago and also 14 days ago.
I agree with that, because there is no offering from AMD to compete with the absolute performance.
NymVPN doesn’t supports it. I asked their support. They have plans for the future.
If you are looking for reliable port forwarding consider Windscribe VPN.
This is the biggest hurdle nowadays with Nvidia:
NVIDIA GPUs generally experience a performance penalty when running DirectX 12 games on Linux, with reports indicating a drop of 15-30% compared to Windows. This is largely attributed to driver optimizations and the overhead from using translation layers like Proton and Wine.
Are we even able to successfully add an eGPU on those ARM laptops using a Linux distro?
It was just a just a joke. Slackware is a dinosaur.