Molecular0079 @ Molecular0079 @lemmy.world

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I don't think its as mutually exclusive as you make it sound. Personally, I think showing that there's a bunch of Linux users interested in buying and running games in general is helping out the Linux gaming scene, regardless of whether its a native port or not. We need to shortcut the chicken-and-egg problem of not having enough marketshare and I think Proton and Steam Deck have been instrumental in doing that and getting developers to even be aware of Linux. It's a slow and steady march onwards, but I firmly believe one day we'll have enough marketshare to start demanding native ports from non-indie game devs.

Brother printers are well known for working well within Linux. Personally, I have a MFC-J4335DW and it works very well with the generic IPP Everywhere driver. Depending on your distro, you may have to enable avahi-daemon yourself in order to get network printer auto-detection to work, but after that it just works. Even the scanning portion of the all-in-one works well!

While I love me some Doom and grew up with boomer shooters, I am not sure if FPS games moving on and expanding past them can be considered a mistake.

I am digging the shit out of Baldur's Gate 3 tho. This is RPG done right. I bought it during early access years back and I literally took PTO off work to play the final release on launch day.

Brother printers are usually pretty good with Linux. HP ought to work with Linux just fine though, they've had Linux drivers since forever.

Can't recommend Nextcloud enough. I also recommend checking out self-hosting! It's ridiculously easy to setup with the example docker-compose files they have in their git repo. If you have a NAS or a machine at home, you can basically create your own online storage that's completely private.

When compared to an ipad, the price isn't that bad. I would love to play with an x86 tablet that isn't the price of a Surface Pro...now THAT's ridiculous.

I was actually under the impression that DD-WRT was sort of on-par, but then again I've never tried it.

Ever since I found out my old Netgear R7800 didn't have a functional IPv6 firewall, I've been riding happily on the OpenWrt train. Now I absolutely refuse to buy routers that I can't flash with OpenWrt.

Interesting take. I actually think the PC handheld market is being opened up by the Steam Deck. I think companies are seeing its admittedly early success and want a piece of the pie. Time will tell how big the market grows.

AMD HIP support for Blender has landed or is landing soon for Linux so I wouldn't be too worried. However, HIP is still slower than CUDA / Optix so there's that to consider as well. I personally went Nvidia for that reason.

They haven't released the installable ISO, but there's no reason why hardware vendors and Valve couldn't work together to build a Steam OS image for specific devices.

I really wish more PC handheld devices would come out with SteamOS instead of Windows. It'd make them a lot more appealing to me over the Steam Deck. The Windows experience on handhelds is a bloated and kludgy mess.

SSDs are coming down drastically in price so depending on when you create your NAS, you might want to consider NVMe SSDs instead of HDDs for the performance and power savings. I just bought 4x 4TB MSI Spatium's and put them into a self-built NAS with ZFS raidz1 and I couldn't be happier. It takes only 2 hrs to scrub 8TB worth of data.

HDDs are starting to become obsolete and I am honestly here for it. I think in the future SSDs will start to become much more economical. Currently they're still 2x the price of an equivalent NAS grade HDD, but that's better than the 4x just two years ago.

If those disks are the big plastic WD externals, they can be easily shucked and used in a NAS—much cheaper than buying the bare drives without the casing for reasons known only to WD.

They're cheaper because WD externals are usually bottom of the barrel drives that failed to pass muster for their other offerings. I would exercise caution when relying on them. Source: friend who works at WD doing drive validation.

We’re probably 3-5 months away from Raspberry Pi 4 boards being regularly back in stock.

This is very exciting news. During the pandemic I was tearing my hair out trying to find one. Do you have any recommendations for good cases to put the RPI4 in?

I hope those rumors are true! Those RDNA 3 performance gains could do wonders for the handheld PC market as well.

I'd still recommend a separate server for numerous reasons:

1. You can save power instead of letting your gaming PC run 24/7. The lowest I've ever seen my gaming PC idle at is 125W, whereas my dedicated DIY NAS idles at 27W. That's a huge difference in your electricity bill over the long-term, although it really depends on what area you live in. My PC kicks out a lot more heat than my server though so it does make a difference when it comes to my AC bill!
2. You may want stable software for your server (ie Debian) and bleeding edge (Arch Linux) for your gaming PC, or you may want Linux for your server and Windows for gaming, etc.
3. Separate server provides better uptime. I would hate to interrupt a big transfer to my Nextcloud just because I needed to restart my PC to do system updates.

when it comes to stuff like laptops the selection with AMD kit is a bit limited

You mean ones with dedicated cards? Their APU selection is actually pretty nice these days. I am digging my Ryzen 6800U.

In Linux I have to worry about the driver stub borking every time there’s a kernel update

DKMS is your friend. I've never once had it break and I run Arch where the kernel updates practically every week.

Definitely would not mind having an AMDGPU equivalent for Nvidia. It'd be awesome if things like proprietary CUDA could be an optional installable package alongside an open graphics driver.

Didn't they recently unblock that around the time they released their open kernel module?