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Man I wish a T470 was enough for me. At this point even the thought of a dual core CPU makes me shudder.

Haswell-Skylake was the last time Intel got good battery life.

I've been messing with that tool on and off from the day it was available to developers. I'm well aware of it. It's ass.

It's been a few months since I've used it so maybe it's gotten better? But this is Apple and gaming, so I don't have high hopes.

It's not at all comparable to proton other than it does the bare minimum to make a game work. All of the tools and tweaks that go into proton are what make it so good. Maybe for CS2 someones put in the work to make it ok. But whether it's through crossover, wiskey, or whatever else it's been awful for me. Maybe version 2 is better. But even then I doubt it will be as seamless or good as proton is.

Linux has proton, Mac OS doesn't.

If they give half a shit about it then supporting the gam through proton is a lot less effort than making an actually good native linux version.

My mom bought a Jeep. It paid out over what the car was worth in warranty repairs. After the warranty was up the car became mostly reliable for the next 5-6 years.

I think the real pro tip is just never buy a Jeep.

For home: Firefox. I've tried the forks and I always hate something about them more than whatever good they offer.

Work: Chrome. I don't really have much of a choice.

enjoy the experience by making friends and trying new activities.

Big emphasis on this. Nepotism and cronyism are the best ways to get a good job. If you don't talk to people, and keep in touch with them after college then finding a job is going to be that much harder. GPA doesn't mean shit if someone in the right position really thinks you're a good person for the job.

Every time the circlejerk assumes the worst out of comments like these.

Don't worry guys, they're serious about it this time.

They're totally not going to do something to piss off everyone developing games for them in like 6 months.

Most of cassettes lack of audio quality isn't actually the quality, it's the tape hiss. Without the tape there's no hiss so they sound basically as good as a straight aux cable. It's basically just a weird connector in the middle of the cable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4n8fUjtLQ

That only stops them from changing gears for you. They can still remotely shut off your engine, slam on your brakes, and if your car has a lane keep assist steer for you.

The performance gains are from all the tweaks people have done to proton to fix the games. Running regular programs through wine will only be slower.

That's the magic of proton, and all of the tools that make it work.

DXVK alone is incredible.

I don’t think I want steamOS

Good because SteamOS doesn't want you. It's AMD only at the moment.

Linux Mint is generally fine. But with bleeding edge hardware sometimes it's better to be on a newer distro that gets driver updates more often. But that largely depends on if you have any issues with the current drivers. I don't have any 50 series hardware to test to see what sort of issues there are. That said Nvidia has been making some good progress with their drivers after hiring Ben Skeggs.

If it was for cooling it would be off center where the CPU actually is. This is just for “style”

https://archive.is/ITMyv

Unpaywalled

Valve did a lot of work to tune the APU in the steam deck for efficiency. It's custom silicon at the end of the day.

AMD just kinda took one of their existing laptop APUs and threw it into handhelds instead of laptops.

That my friend, is entering operating system politics.

But the TLDR is: resistance to change, lack of support, bribery, a combination of all 3, features, and much much more!

DXVK (which also runs on windows) alone gives you a huge performance benefit. Playing world of warcraft on windows I'll see about a 30% reduction in CPU usage and higher performance.

Proton doesn't just get you to almost matching Windows' performance. Proton easily outperforms windows even on higher end hardware where windows bloat isn't a concern.

Proton is the compatibility layer that valve makes that lets you run games on Linux. Proton uses DXVK a program that converts Direct X API calls (windows only) to Vulkan API calls (runs on anything). DXVK alone gives you huge performance benefits (especially on older DirectX 11 and older games) and you can run it on windows.

Proton gives you a ton of other tools that can make huge performance differences.

the gains come from the reduced overhead that linux has compared to windows

literally the next line

..the games here are being run through proton

I really hate the dismissal of the heavy lifting proton does. Proton is what makes gaming on Linux so great. So many native linux games perform worse on Linux vs their windows counterparts. Then again, I'd expect nothing less from Dave2D