Forbidden instant ramen

Oh, makes sense. It thought Valve would already be working with some manufacurers based on this interview from November

https://www.pcgamer.com/steamos-on-handheld-pcs/

Shame that all these companies choose win11 over SteamOS

on ExpressVPN many servers are blocked but if you pick a smaller country like Luxembourg it can work

Same here. this is upsetting :/ Back to firefox I guess

Great news! is there a chance this will eventually lead to screen tearing protocol getting implemented?

Could be true for governmental work and computers but the masses aren’t moving to linux, it’s still under 1% in China.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/china

This is the way. I dabbled with a modmic but even that developed a cable issue after a couple of years. Now everything I have is modular and all of their cables can be just swapped out.

Gaming headsets.

Kept buying whatever I could for ~60-70€ at the time, and they kept breaking within a year. Bought proper headphones for 120€ which lasted me 8 years.

Going to ask here, anyone know a music player that is similar to AIMP? It has no native support, unfortunately.

https://www.aimp.ru/?do=download&os=linux

No worries! I switched to AMD (7900 XTX) before christmas and so far I’ve had no issues. A 6800XT should have pretty similar performance to a 4070, not a bad choice either. The drivers are pretty much matured already so most of the launch issues, like VR performance and power usage should be resolved by now.

But NVIDIA also just works, even though the cards can be massive, and they are quite energy efficient. Their control panel is straight from windows XP era though :D

I’m sure whatever you’ll have a great gaming experience no matter what choose :)

The parts are compatible, but not sure if the GPU will fit in the case. You could go for a full tower to be sure.

There are cheaper RTX 4070 models available on the same page, so unless you absolutely want this exact model you could save 60-70€.

Also unless you need all the nvidia features like CUDA, you could also try seeing if you can find a cheap AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT in your country. It would perform better and has more VRAM for future proofing.

I also have an issue when starting up Flatpak Steam on Nobara. Steam started suddenly “bootlooping”. It appears in the background tasks of GNOME and disappeara after a few seconds.

I found a workaround, however; Start by closing it in the backround apps, right-clicking Steam on the dock and selecting any page to open to, like friends or store

I am also dual booting because of game compability and Virtual Reality support.

I think once wine-wayland gets fully merged we will see a clear uplift in performance, at least on wayland.

This very much.

The reason I switched was the forced updates that kept slowing down my computer when I needed the juice and network. Also there was a constant pressure to “upgrade” to win11.

OP, If you don’t have many major grievances with windows, it might not be worth switching. Nothing stopping you from taking a look in case you might like it. I have enjoyed my experience so far, despite some small issues.

Nobara on my desktop, Pop_os! on my laptop. As soon as the new COSMIC DE is ready I will switch to Pop on my desktop as well.

Seems pretty okay. I managed to get League of legends/TFT running perfectly fine (though the launcher is a bit stuttery)

CSGO I noticed runs WAY smoother on Linux. Maybe becausw it uses Vulkan which is a lot more modern than dx9. But the aim just feels… smoother despite the same FPS?

edit: on Nobara and a AMD GPU

I’ve been able to ban whole instances with Connect for Lemmy and hide nsfw. Made the browsing a lot more enjoyable

Weird. Maybe you have removed some permissions or dosabled installing apps from unkown sources?

I installed it via firefox mobile as a PWA and have no issues.