Yeah i must say i'm a bit confused at why youtubers are glazing this 9070 card so much. First of all like you said, prices are still not down to what they used to be before the first mining craze, second of all: why are they pretending that this is the first time amd has a decent answer to an nvidia 70 series card? From what i remember they always had cards that could compete with that, the problem was usually that they couldn't compete with the 80/90 series cards (which is probably still going to be a problem now). I also don't see how this is going to impact competition at all. Most people judging by steam surveys are buying 60 series cards, and those people also seem to keep insisting on buying nvidia instead of an amd equivalent, so i'm skeptical.
I came to the same conclusion recently. Had a bunch of issues after i decided to try running windows 11 instead of 10 in a vm. One of them being that my usb dac refused to work, turns out after googling and finding a weird random chatgpt article that it was caused by a specific update. Had to roll the update back to solve it. Now i have to hope that they solve it before they decide to force the update on me anyways.
I still use a streaming service because it's just so damn convenient, and also a great way to discover new music, but at the same time i have also started to build up a cd collection of my favourites, so that way i also have music that i actually own.
I'm not a programmer so i don't have much skin in the game, but from how it's described it seems like a good idea to me and rust seems like a solid language to me. I do understand the concern from devs who don't know rust and don't want to learn it, but i guess that also depends on how much they would actually have to interact with it.
I don't know how to feel about it tbh. My steam deck and vita have oled displays, the tv downstairs has hdr, but it never made as much of a difference imo. Like when i'm sitting at my va monitor i don't feel like i'm missing anything. Maybe it's just a personal thing in terms of what you're most sensitive to. I feel like i'm most sensitive towards refreshrate. I also don't bother with ray tracing cause even in the best examples like cyberpunk, people usually have to point out the difference to me because i barely notice it.
I really love bash scripting. I use it to symlink my dotfiles from my git repo, to configure my void system the way i like it, dmenu scripts, and i also use it on my laptop to send me notifications when my battery is almost empty, when i plug/unplug the charger, when it's fully charged, and to hibernate when it's lower than 5%. For some reason apps like upower don't seem to work on my laptop so bash offered a solution.
I didn't know about bazzite not supporting ntfs. I do agree with you that it's silly that they don't allow you to use it, but from my own experience i will say that they are probably right about ntfs having issues in linux. I was using an external drive formatted to ntfs to move stuff between windows and linux, and at one point the entire partition just broke when it was connected to linux. It didn't seem to be a faulty drive cause after a reformat it worked just fine, but i try to avoid ntfs as much as possible now.
Flatpak is gonna need some more work for me to accept it as the only way to install software if that were to happen though. The only reason i use them right now is because together with appimages they are the least sucky to use, and it beats manually compiling the software.
Yeah vrr causing flickering on the desktop is a common issue. I'm only using window managers so i just toggle it on or off with a keybind. On kde or hyprland you could try setting it to only turn on for fullscreen applications.
I think what you're referring to is when you install windows and linux on the same drive. That can indeed cause problems, but if you use seperate drives you should be good to go.
This is kinda unrelated to the post but do icc profiles now generally work on wayland? I thought last time i read about it it didn't work yet but maybe i'm mistaken.
The way i always looked at it was that the appearance didn't really matter. Either luke just instinctively knew that it was his father because if the fact that he appeared next to yoda and obi-wan, or he knew it was his father because he could sense it in the force that it was in fact him.
Could you give an example of that? Cause i'm kinda curious. I have used home manager before when i was using nixos, but when i left i went back to using my script. It was kinda annoying to me how home manager was much slower.
From what i remember my experience was the same when i started my journey with PopOS. Ofcourse it probably did help that i was already an amd user when i was still using windows, i already hated nvidia years before switching lol. I went down the rabbithole and now i'm on Void linux. Also used arch and NixOS in the past. I love being able to setup these minimal distros to my liking, and after that it just works and gets out of the way.
From my experience your mileage may vary when it comes to being able to keep both monitors on. The concept of a primary monitor on wayland doesn't exist, and my games always choose the wrong monitor to render on. The game will open on my primary monitor but i can only select the resolution and refreshrate of my secondary monitor in the game settings. If you have identical monitors that would probably not be an issue, but i don't. Setting the primary xwayland display with xrandr helps for some games, but not all. The best solution for me ended up being to disable my secondary monitor when gaming.
Yeah i must say i'm a bit confused at why youtubers are glazing this 9070 card so much. First of all like you said, prices are still not down to what they used to be before the first mining craze, second of all: why are they pretending that this is the first time amd has a decent answer to an nvidia 70 series card? From what i remember they always had cards that could compete with that, the problem was usually that they couldn't compete with the 80/90 series cards (which is probably still going to be a problem now). I also don't see how this is going to impact competition at all. Most people judging by steam surveys are buying 60 series cards, and those people also seem to keep insisting on buying nvidia instead of an amd equivalent, so i'm skeptical.