I’m currently using Garuda! I love the arch features (rolling release, AUR, etc) and love the game integration tools: 1 click to install nvidia drivers, wine w/winetricks, retroarch, and a bunch more.
However sometimes I observe some kind of stuttering during games. I have a 3070Ti and that kind of stuff shouldn’t be happening on 5+ year old games.
I would still recommend it as a lot more people seems to be running it without issues, but idk, I guess no system is perfect.
I always liked planetary annihilation. It is really easy, looks decent, and has a native Linux version. That it’s placed in a planet system makes it different to many other RTS.
PA is very cool when you find players matching your skills. I have good memories of 4V4 games, when both teams synchronise to puts players with the same level at the same starting location so everyone have fun.
It does not have that much soul, IMHO, and performance problems when games stands too long on multiplanetary systems.
It’s depressing that no other devices are getting SteamOS yet, either as out-of-the-box or at least supported fully day one. Here is why I suspect we are watching it die a second time.
Valve hasn’t released it standalone, which is probably making these manufacturers nervous
If Valve is even offering it to the manufacturers, money is probably flowing one way or another, as professional service fees to Valve, or ransom demands from manufacturers entrenched with Windows
Microsoft might still be doing their usual anticompetitive crap, offering incentives to keep SteamOS off of as many devices as possible
We are going to be held hostage on Windows for years to come because this is delaying the critical mass for adoption. Even though there are all the other viable community distros, we need the brand to keep things moving.
That's a Kbin thing, you'll get used to it. Also images in comments like the one you posted doesn't federate with some (I think, maybe they don't federate at all) lemmy servers, so maybe they can't see it either
Don't worry, it's a Kbin thing. It doesn't format correctly some fancy texts from Lemmy and we see a text box with the html tags and all. It should be ok on lemmy
I won’t be buying an NVIDIA GPU any time soon for my desktop, but hopefully this move will make gaming on my laptop better. Unfortunately NVIDIA seems to have an almost monopoly on good gaming laptops especially if you don’t want giant bulky or cheaply built ones. My 2021 Razer Blade 14 has a 3070 and while the proprietary drivers work, NVIDIA’s own implementation of render offloading/PRIME leaves much to be desired, with random screen tearing even when vsync is forced on as soon as the GPU load starts getting high.
I think you have to be okay with APUs to be satisfied with AMD on laptops. Which at least are decently powerful these days, as long as high res triple AAA gaming isn’t a requirement (the Steam Deck is just an APU after all).
I had a look on this and unfortunately, only comparable AMDs (RX 7600) exist in that size. I wish I could do an upgrade with my next card, but since I want to switch to a tiny “portable” PC case, I am limited to small GPUs. That’s why I’d like to try it first with the GPU I am currently runnning on (actually the only part I want to reuse from my current build, lol)
Yes. AMDs usually work out of the box in Linux and provide the full performance a card is capable of. Even though I run Linux, I haven’t gamed for a while now. This community might be able to present their personal experience with particular models.
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