“Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs.”
Sounds like FW Updater here is adding support for NAVI 3x which is the 5nm / RDNA 3 chips, AKA Ryzen RX 7000 series (for example RX 7600). Does this mean you can now update the firmware for the chip? Does it mean FWUpd will automatically handle firmware updates for you?
Bonus challenge if you wanna talk to me about what some of the linux firmware lingo means.
It’s exciting that with Fwupd 1.9.6+ it’s now possible to update AMD discrete graphics card firmware under Linux rather than having to resort to Windows or other environments. This new Fwupd plug-in works with Navi 3x on recent versions of the Linux kernel where the AMDGPU driver has the necessary interfaces to make the firmware updating happen. Specifically this firmware updating is focused on flashing the graphics card’s Integrated Firmware Image (IFWI).
So you could not update the firmware on Navi 3x before this update arrived to Fwupd? Err you could update the card outside of Linux by booting up windows?
Okay got it. Thank you! I just started using desktop linux, I’m on Nobara so I have some expectation that things will be handled for me and I’m not always sure about when I need to tweak things. The extent of my troubleshooting so far is using ProtonDB.
I’ll add that firmware updates for GPUs are pretty uncommon (my current card has had zero in the 3 years since it was launched). And an AMD driver dev confirmed as much, that it is just there in case it’s needed.
And fwupd is a standard way to update firmware etc on a variety of hardware that doesn’t require DOS boot drives or using Windows, more commonly used on laptops and some servers and prebuilt clients. Which is obviously quite nice from a Linux user’s perspective.
Adding to other comments, fwupd is integrated into Gnome Software and probably other software centers. There’s also a systemd servivce or fwupd can be run from the terminal.
So as far as I know it’s not necessarily run automatically on all distros.
Made the switch way before any kind of support from steam, had several games from aspyr and feral, bought a codeweavers license and all that. For me at keast it’s about the lack of interruptions and actually enjoying the workflow on gnome. I also love the idea of fetting in touch directly with the people making the programs I enjoy and not a random support rep on the other side of the world.
On the other hand, you should probably take a deeper look at steam. There are a ton of extra modifications you can do to the client, all of them unofficial and some straight up illegal, from changing the theme to injecting enhancements on the store (e.g. displaying protondb score on store pages) to aome shady shit like unlocking DLC. Steam is DRM but it’s not denuvo or something like that. It’s easily circumventable to the point I feel safe buying games on it, knowing if they ever go for a rug pull, I could keep most if not all my stuff regardless of the platform itself.
If you don’t like the way Steam works you can always game without steam. Heroic is a free and open source game store front end. It lets you buy games from DRM free online platforms like GOG.
It uses the same Proton compatibility software as Steam. It’s a win win, you can support your favorite game publishers and have a free and open source platform.
Did the same when faced with the choice “Lose support, move to Win10, or jump ship entirely?” and installed Ubuntu only. It was a daunting leap for sure, but I’ve only looked back for one particular program that I don’t actually need usually and can run inside a VM.
Guess WE should buy it. Ensure 51% of the shares are locked up tight. It is a private company, so Valve would have to be cool with it. Otherwise, the wrong person getting a divorce, dividing assets in half, and it is all over.
Yes thank you, that sounds about right. How do I use dkms? Also why did you link xpadneo when I use xone? I feel like I am missing something obvious here.
I agree. Are you installing it from the GitHub repo? It looks like the install script should automatically use dkms. The next issue is making sure that it’s actually being triggered when you install a new kernel, which should already be happening. If not, you can use the archwiki page as a reference for how to rebuild the modules you need.
DKMS is installed and I dont recall seeing any error message when I run the xone install script, but I would have to check when I have time to make sure I didnt miss anything
After checking again I see that I get the error “could not locate dkms.conf” when I run the install script. I am googling solutions but if you have any ideas I would be glad to hear them!
This means something that has been true since before OS X was invented (circa 1990-ish) that hasn’t changed. Wanna game on the puter? Mac ain’t it. Mac never been it. Apple actually provides hardware that is gaming able. They don’t want to cater to gamers. They could do this easily and sell so many heavy duty desktop towers now. Why won’t they? They’d have to UN-propriatary themselves.
This means something that has been true since before OS X was invented (circa 1990-ish) that hasn’t changed.
No, it doesn’t. Linux was always behind OSX on this survey. It only changed very recently, and because these survey results fluctuate from month to month, it wasn’t clear that it would remain this way.
wow. that’s what i’d call weird computer science. like, we could take that 80’s song and get all blinded by computer science. thanks for that. I always thought linux would be ahead. about time the evil was overcome. it’s been a huge war. we users of linux have had to suffer. we might not have had to bleed to death, but we didn’t spend a premium on a mac and just let everything work, except our games.
Project gorgon as others have said is the first native game that comes to mind. Guild wars 2 runs great on proton and that’s my recommendation. FF14 is great if you don’t mind the subscription and can get through the vanilla campaign, which is a massive slog and a major setback in the quality of the game IMO. Guild wars 2 is a similar situation in that it’s a slog for the personal story, but after that it picks up and that’s only like 40% of the vanilla campaign as opposed to the whole vanilla campaign of FF14. The FF14 fanboys don’t want to talk about the vanilla campaign and for good reason, it sucks, it’s just not fun. The game doesn’t get good until heavensward.
just want to add, I personally thought heavensward was just alright, stormbringer was a step backwards, but Holy Hell Shadowbringers and Endwalker stand out as some of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
Find a group and play with them, having a 4 man party through the whole game is what kept me going. The free trial lets you touch the first extreme trials which are some pretty good content in my opinion.
Well Freesync is probably a bit more complicated to implement than FSR 3 considering the scope, Freesync works in-games and in the desktop so I imagine the display server and compositor need to support it. To me FSR 3 seems nothing more than a driver update and a new version of wine / proton.
I think I read the changelog wrong because apparently freesync has been a thing in the kernel since a while back. Probably just some improvement being implemented in 6.5
To be honest I haven’t ever tested because while my display technically supports it, it’s a pretty basic display with not a lot or Hz range so I haven’t bothered to check.
I just bought a new NVME SSD as I need to reinstall Windows anyway. I am seriously considering at least dual booting Windows and Linux or just going full Linux at once. You guys in here and the Linux community on Lemmy show me that it is possible to escape Windows without too much trouble, even for a Linux newb like me.
Okay, I am not a complete newb, I have set up a few Raspberry Pis and do run a unRAID server, but I have never seriously used Linux as a daily driver on my desktop or laptop.
I am using single GPU VFIO passthrough and it’s good enough to game on, especially if you also pin your CPU threads in the VM. You will lose a little bit of performance but if you really need that extra power you can just switch to bare metal Windows using dual boot
If you don’t want the full bloated Windows I can recommend that you check out ReviOS
Interesting, never heard of ReviOS before. Is there a list of changes they’ve made? I looked thru their site and couldn’t see any such details their docs. I’d like to know what sets it apart from the likes of Tiny11 and Ghost Spectre Superlite etc.
I also considered using Tiny11 and Ghost Spectre but ended up with Revi because I don’t really trust Tiny11 or Ghost Spectre. It’s super easy for a malicious actor to include malware in those redistributed ISOs.
Of course the same thing can be said about Revi but Revi also offers the option to run their Playbook on a regular install of Windows. Or you could make your own custom Windows Playbook with Ameliorated.
Then there is also AtlasOS which, like Revi, is made using Ameliorated. I chose Revi because they had MS store and Windows defender still working and I like their custom tool. But according to Atlas developers, Windows Defender will be coming back in the next release.
In the end I guess what it comes down to is who you trust. The safest bet would be to debloat Windows yourself.
Using QEMU/Virt-Manager you can just create a new VM and instead of creating a virtual disk you just input the path to your drive manually. In my case it’s mounted at /dev/sdb
This will pass your full drive to the VM and Windows will just boot up like magic
Edit: If you already have a Windows VM I would assume you could just edit it and change from virtual drive to your full Windows drive instead. I don’t think you have to make a new one
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