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Does it have a user accessible UEFI? If so, has anyone had any luck booting HoloISO or Chimera on it?

not here to recommend a specific distro, I'm sure your experience will largely be familiar between the popular recommendations here.

I think you will be pleasantly surprised at just how good gaming on Linux is right now. You'll probably find that contemporary AAA titles perfom better than on win10/11.

I find that Linux is the best place to play older windows games. You don't get fucked over by annoying exclusive fullscreen behaviour messing with your desktop when you tab out, for example.

Shit really just works. It's a great time.

Such beautiful pups! 😊🥰

Really liking this. Thank you for the recommendation.

I could have sworn they wrote a similar post about Wayland,

Thoroughly enjoyed roboquest. One of the only games I've bothered to 100%

It's a problem anywhere, centralised software repositories help combat it to a degree.

That's fair enough. I don't know if I could wholeheartedly recommend the Linux desktop to just anybody, but I really have been enjoying fedora for a good few years now.

I work in parallel to the gaming industry (IHV) and VRR on Linux (under wayland) is something I've been pretty excited about. It's been functional under KDE Plasma for some time now (and for Sway even longer). I've tested the previously mentioned mutter patch on fedora 38 and it worked surprisingly well, but I believe they're still mulling over the UX (I.e. how this feature should be exposed to end users in the settings UI). Community driven UX design & consensus is hard.

As for the maturity of Wayland, you may find differences in implementation depending on the desktop environment. I believe KDE plasma's inplementation is a bit further ahead than gnomes, and your experience with Wayland under such an environment should be fairly comprehensive, though I don't expect you to have to test individual DEs, so don't take my word for it.

I personally prefer gnome with a couple of shell extensions so I'll have to wait for it to catch up, though in typical use, it seems to do pretty well.

If you need VRR on a Wayland environment, you might want to try Kubuntu or the Fedora KDE spin (as examples). There's also Sway, but a tiling WM may not be what you're looking for.

VRR isn't currently implemented on GNOMEs mutter (though it is actively being worked on).

You can patch mutter with the VRR work yourself (using a copr on Fedora, and perhaps a PPA on Ubuntu), though I wouldn't recommend it.

Big fan of dash-to-panel on gnome 45 myself. I similarly use a tray icon extension but the name eludes me.

I tried to switch back to the mutter-vrr fork today with no luck. Very much looking forward to VRR in gnome + Wayland.

news to me lol.

would love for that to be the norm, though.

This is confusing. There are kernel and user space drivers. For example, amdgpu is the kernel driver (inclusive of KMD, DAL & several other functions like powerplay), RadeonSI / RADV / AMDVLK / OGLP (amdgpu-pro) are UMDs for 3D GFX API implementations.

Mantle was not inspired by DX at its time. It was designed as an alternative to OGL and d3d11.

ATI on its own was 'array technologies incorporated', though to your point, they became known as 'ATI technologies incporporated' later on, which is big sus.

Oh right, my mistake. I do vaguely recall their prior endeavour

I had no idea about Appimage's stance on Wayland. That's very unfortunate.

E: Here's what I've come across so far: https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/appimage-dev-rejects-wayland-support/

A new start in dGPU is no easy task, but I honestly thought Arc's relative RTRT and compute perf were quite good?

My main complaint would be their Linux support situation for Arc. I'm hoping it will improve over time.

In terms of technology & product offerings (perf/watt, compute density, TCO) relative to AMD, then Intel have absolutely fallen behind.

Though, this story has taken time to reflect in server market share, and Intel are still the major player.

Is this via a USB 3 or USB 2 port?

I wasn't aware of this situation, that's really good to know.

I'm not keen on the snaps being centralised behind a proprietary server. I don't really get why anyone would put up with that in light of Flatpak.

maybe, though I've had trouble with the NP froid repo as well (won't rule out a skill issue on my part).

I'm fine with using that app mentioned before to grab artefacts directly from the repo releases for the time being.

Honestly it's not a must for jerboa, though continuity with newpipe can be an issue since Google can change how YT video URLs are handled without warning.