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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: drlamb

Quoting: Mountain Man

The premium edition of the game allows for "early access" starting September 1st.

Ah, okay. Not sure it's worth an extra $40 just to play the game a few days early.

it's always better to wait for these things to get patches for performance and stability + save 50% - 75% and wait a year. There are thousands of excellent games out now, current and former.

That said im not the target audience, im not swayed by the 'current thing' hype.
id like to say that was reserved for when i was a kid bragging at school about the latest overpriced imported SNES cartridge i had just obtained (who's neglectful parent threw money at them as a way to justify their non existent parenting) but I wasn't one of those either.

I always liked the oddball games, and i guess that's because im an oddball myself haha :grin:

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Quoting: TheRiddickThese new AMD cards are NOT good upgrades for people using the 6700/6800 cards.
AMD has even made sure people understand these are for the 5000 series or below for upgrade. I see these as being almost like a 6700/6800 refresh, or a 1.5 upgrade in some sense since they are just barely faster and just more efficient cards.

But are they more efficient if they are barely faster than the 6 series ? I mean my 6700xt is 12gb 192bit just like the 7770xt, But the difference is that the 6700xt is 186w TDP and the 7700xt is 245w TDP, which is a sizeable increase if you live in a expensive energy climate or a hot climate to boot. Some people have argued you can undervolt a 7700xt to maybe 200W to make it more reasonable, but by that same Token i have my 6700xt undervolted and i barely see 145w for total draw. i can actually game without overly concerning myself over heat or energy costs. Given i game at 1440p@60 most of the time the entire system sits between 145-165w in typical gaming scenarios.

That said i agree with the fact that they might be a good replacement for the 5 series. Id personally try to find a cheap 6700xt/6800 series on a deal and undervolt it, should last a good few years.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: LoftyWould be interesting to see if a slightly smaller 8" device like this could come with a Sim card + decent camera and then maybe we could have an X86 Hybrid Linux desktop computer smart phone.

Absolutely. In fact -- it's literally possible to modify the SteamDeck to do just this, and with a CPU that can run laps around PinePhone / Librem5 -- although I'm not sure that the touch or screen resolution is as optimal as it could be. My eyes and ears are open for other contenders in this space. To speed up development and save developer time I think it's a good idea for devs to test drive higher power devices at a similar form factor when possible.

Its only a matter of time before some company offers a SIM expansion for one of these x86 tablets and with the right network & call software (that probably already exists) we can make a Linux phone without having to wait years for some other company try to match a current andriod / ios device, which is not what we need we just need the ABILITY, to make calls and we can sort the rest of the experience from then on in.

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for some reason i can't get excited about those graphs. Sure new games on ultra high @4k with raytracing are going to be demanding. But i can't shake the feeling that an uber expensive brand new high TDP 7900XTX with TFLOPs to space and back should be able to run these current games around 60FPS without FSR3.

will FS3 be used to justify even more shitty optimisation of AAA titles ?

Honestly AAA gaming is pretty much dead to me right now, it's not the Size of the games, the lacklustre optimisation, the exorbitant pricing models on unfinished releases with DLC being used as a patch, or the not actually owning it, or even the DRM anti-cheat spyware.. let alone the way these companies treat their staff. It's actually because most (not all) of these games frankly suck.

That said, im really enjoying Indie / AA and retro games a heck of a lot more TBH and i dont need FS3 for that.

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Quoting: tuubiI don't know about him, but I like a separate home partition simply because it makes reinstalling or dual booting distributions a bit simpler. I don't do either of these often, but still.

am i him ? okay then :grin:

i simply prefer to redo my entire install each time, i generally get the feeling that i have installed and fiddled around enough that i need a clean slate. For backups of configs i can use timeshift and manual saving of files and most my stuff is on external drives so the entire install and renew process is pretty quick. it also lets me refresh my mind on how to configure stuff again like the desktop settings and my browser preferences etc..

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Quoting: nitrofuranogreat seeing gnu/linux oem hardware like this around, but that about using intel cpu seems very terrible choice (intel chips are more efficient as home heaters than cpu) - would be really great if they came with amd cpu, or even better, arm cpu (just like apple is doing now)

This might be the case for the desktop CPU's. But the mobile chips are quite efficient afaik.

Would be interesting to see if a slightly smaller 8" device like this could come with a Sim card + decent camera and then maybe we could have an X86 Hybrid Linux desktop computer smart phone.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: Loftyits why i moved to Arch, i just haven't had a good time adding 'after market' post install newer Mesa and kernal versions to Mint without some degree of eventual problem.

Yes. In my long experience with Arch on multiple computers is that you have to do the least amount of fiddling in the long run (unless something really bad happens like the premature switch to KDE 3 – I'm really bad at remembering numbers). That was a horrible experience since that update killed everything desktop related.

I even switched from 32bit to 64bit on a running system without an issue.

yup. That has been my experience, i just give it about 4 -5 days between arch updates so that ooopsie's are usually reverted or fixed by the time i come to update.

You can get by just fine on Debian / Mint just awell now there are flatpacks for most software. But for video drivers, Wayland, VideoCasting, VRR-Freesync, HDR, CPU optimizations, cutting edge MESA optimizations, Motherboard support and lots of other newer features you are going to be sitting in the dark, waiting on mint / debian twiddling your thumbs for that new (actually very late to the party VS windows) feature sets, perhaps a year.

But i support mint as it's a solid distro and i think something close to Debian SID could be a really good base for Mint Debian EDGE combined with flatpak, it might offer the kind of stability that Manjaro goes for with it's slightly slower update cycle without all sometimes crazy Manjaro team decisions.

Either way the choice is good. Arch is my goto for a gaming system right now.

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Quoting: tuubiThe update manager's configuration dialog has a "Remove obsolete kernels and dependencies" setting. It's been there for a good while.

Honestly that's new to me, should that not be some sort of default?
i have run mint for years and never seen that feature. I did do a search and find that 19.2 'Tina' had this option added but unless i read the blog i would not of known about it. The things is, people often advise new users from windows to move to linux mint and when the hardware needs a newer kernel or set of drivers the most information people ever give is to use the update manager and apply, i have never seen anyone ever explain to move into the settings pane and navigate to the 'automation' tab to manage kernal updates.

Don't get me wrong i use mint on my low end 'stable' mini pc for that consistency.

Ironically the network adapter doesn't work 100% because the kernal fix for it comes in a much newer version but dont be mistaken that the hardware is cutting edge, because thats the thing with Linux, you can have older hardware that suddenly gets fixed up several years later all of a sudden in a newer kernal and be waiting 6 - 8 or more months on mint / debian to recieve it.

It's basically never good to be on an older kernal. But just 'how' old is up for debate depending on the level of support you need for the hardware you choose to own. That's down to the individual.

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Quoting: staywithmeWhat's stopping anyone from installing the 6.2 kernel on current LM (21.2)? The option's right there in Mint's update manager!

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: staywithmeWhat's stopping anyone from installing the 6.2 kernel on current LM (21.2)? The option's right there in Mint's update manager!

Nothing's stopping anyone from installing it. In fact, I'm always running the latest stable kernel (6.4.10 currently) on Mint and setting that up only took a couple of minutes. No need to touch the terminal even.

The point is to have an installation image that works on your brand new hardware. That's all. You can't exactly get into the update manager if the live USB doesn't even start.

The problem i have had consistently across mint installs and different hardware is that the Boot partition fills really quickly when i added the custom kernal. This means i have to manually clear out older entries (try not to do the wrong one by mistake). It keeps happening and all i have done is choose the same upgrade option as is available to everyone else.
It's a pain, it's pretty unprofessional to have to do this on a distro that promotes ease of use..

worse still, sometimes a kernal update to the desktop occurs with it completely finishing perfectly but then the HDD shows a bug of it having 0% space left and the machine will hang and then not login to desktop because there is not space to boot. so then as a noob you have to be proficient enough (and have a second machine spare to learn what the problem might be if you manage to work it out ??) to boot to terminal and manually remove selected kernals from the boot partition.

So i don't advise my from experience adding custom kernals to linux mint. Not only that the kernals are not LTS anyway and your then potentially creating the same problem when the next big upgrade occurs and the upgraded kernals fills up the boot along side your previous manually upgraded kernal etc...

im sure by having an auto remove feature to clear old kernals this could be fixed. There are threads on the mint forums going back a while but that place is a ghost town and mostly the advice is to run a clean kernal command. But your likely to have the problem before the fix so it's not a great solution.

To me it's a thing they need to sort out. OR they could just run a semi-rolling Debian edge iso with much newer kernals for those who need it in future and leave the standard one without that feature.

its why i moved to Arch, i just haven't had a good time adding 'after market' post install newer Mesa and kernal versions to Mint without some degree of eventual problem.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about the original version? Is it still available?

By the way, I still dream of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars being re-released on Steam.

Enemy Territory was absolutely immense. It was the first arena game that I played that had actual roles/classes. Or at least, definitely the first one where those mattered, anyway.

wasn't that one of the first titles to get a raytracing version as a demo. all the way back in the mid 2000's

I wouldn't mind some quality of life improvements to ET if they re-release it like RTX and some updated textures, models + lighting effects.

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