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And tbh it’s always been pretty decent. You can access (almost) your entire Steam library.

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What advantage is there to using GeForce Now instead of Steam itself?

That’s not bait btw; I’m an all-AMD Linux gamer and I’ve literally never used GeForce Now.

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Remember Stadia? GeForce Now is what it should’ve been. It’s a cloud gaming platform, but you bring your own games.

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Ah interesting. So rendering isn’t done locally?

In that case I wouldn’t even expect it to have a free tier since there are significant costs.

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If you can’t run the game you want to play locally, you might be able to run it on GFN and stream it instead.

If you have a reasonably powerful computer and the games you play work on Linux, you are much better off just running the games locally.

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Most definitely. I don’t think personally I would have an interest in using GFN, but I just didn’t understand what it was at all.

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60 minutes of play is not pretty decent at all, the free tier is just to test if it works since there’s a queue time too.

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Well… Let me tell you some people doesn’t have that much time to game at once…specially the ones that didn’t get a gaming computer or console which this would benefit.

On the other hand I guess the free tier has queues so not sure if it would help for those.

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I know, I tried it, and had to wait half an hour for a spot right after lunch time, the queue for the prime time gaming hours of 18 to 22 must be even longer.

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also the queue used to be 5 minutes tops, now it’s 40-60 minutes long

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It used to be good enough that I would rely on it over dual-booting my laptop. But at least to me it’s only a last resort now.

They’ve limited which games you can play, added tighter time restrictions, added a long wait to even start playing, and now ads.

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