Unfortunately it’s pretty normal for gaming laptops to get very hot. Check your internal temperatures though, if your CPU is over 90C on heavy load you may have to reapply thermal paste. Also clean the vents and fans when you get a chance.
The outside heat of the laptop doesn’t matter much, just make sure the CPU doesn’t hit 98C or so.
From what I got yesterday it balanced around 70. But think I have to realise that it’s about time a I got a new laptop, something with Linux at its core.
It’s been a beautiful thing to see. IIRC Proton was announced and usable sometime in 2018. Things were still rough then but it was a good sign.
When DOOM Eternal dropped it didn’t work for a while and I’d refresh the GitHub issue page daily until one day it was fixed and has worked perfectly ever since.
Apex Legends was one of the only things keeping me dualbooting Windows, then February last year it comes out that Apex added Proton compatibility for EAC thanks to the work Valve did behind the scenes collaborating with anti-cheat developers, so I nuked my Windows partition and haven’t looked back.
We’ve had some crazy momentum over the past few years and it seems things keep improving a step up every few months. Not to mention projects like GloriousEggroll’s proton that has consistently been offering patches to fix certain games earlier than they’re released with Valve’s upstram Proton Expiremental.
Id periodically gone full-time Linux on and off over the past 6 or 7 years and it was always gaming that pulled me back. Now it’s been a good 4 years aside from dualbooting for Apex and with that out of the way I haven’t really had a need to touch Windows at all since. This is truly the best time so far to be gaming on Linux :D
Yeah, when I found out Titanfall+Northstar mod works flawlessly on Linux, it was a pretty good day (the Northstar devs even package the mod as a custom Proton runner just for us Linux users)
Oh yeah! Earlier this year i bought Titanfall 2 on sale and was so hyped to see how well Northstar worked with it. It’s one of my favorite multiplayer games now for just casually hopping in matches here and there. The movement mechanics are so damn satisfying
No, but I had no major problem gaming with an Nvidia card on Tumbleweed. Just followed the wiki guide and added it to the zypper repos and everything was fine.
Been straight Linux since 2005ish. It’s definitely really improved just before COVID - things just work now without fiddling. In the past yeah, I had to fiddle quite a bit to make things work and write up some scripts for installs that would break next patch, but now I’m almost done a Witcher 3 play-through on Linux without even needing to adjust a thing.
I started using Linux in 2008, and full time in 2011. I remember I could play natively to a bunch of games, like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Neverball, Torcs, Dark Oberon, and others. I enjoyed those games, and I still enjoy some of them today. I think it was in 2013 when Steam announced it was coming to Linux, and native ports came too, like Braid and Dynamite Jack. Now, despite my hardware limitations, I can enjoy GTA IV, Stellaris, Prison Architect, Dwarf Fortress, The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe...
Things changed for the better, and thanks to Steam Deck, it'll keep changing.
When I need a microphone I use my Cloud Alpha S, but most of the time I use my Letshuoer S12 with a CX-31993 and in the future I plan on getting an Audio Technica ATH-R70x.
If you want wireless, you could always get a good pair of headphones and pair them with either the FiiO BTR5 or the Qudelix5k.
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