Quoting: scaineI enjoyed my time on Mint. The kernel is a bit disappointing, but both Mint and Pop OS have kernel managers built-in anyway, so you can easily upgrade with a couple of clicks from the settings app.

what is the benefit of running a more upto date kernal vs a cutting edge one such as on arch if your not running an AMD/Intel GPU ? i know that there is sometimes new hardware that would be supported better but for the average person is there really that much of a difference ?

Quoting: scaineI'll stick with Pop for the moment though. Having made the jump to gnome for xrdesktop, I don't really want to go back to Cinnamon, despite how slick it is. Maybe one day.

On the plus side cinnamon might be getting some of the PopOS features such as tiling in the future. And of course GTK5 when it arrives although that is some time away.
I have been quite happy with mint, it doesn't feel anywhere near as stale as it used to VS arch now that there is flatpak support built in.

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Would this improve older earlier Linux ports that used openGL and had poor performance like DeusEX mankind divided?

excuse my ignorance on the matter, this is new to me.

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Quoting: ShadMessaNow they just need to add that option to CSGO

Yes.

Quoting: fagnerlnPlease Valve... Global Offensive next... I never asked for anything... I love you

Yes.

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Quoting: GuestThe M1 likely won't be available outside of Apple devices, so I don't see them getting into generic small form factor system. Likely another company might have to take up the slack.

True, i was more thinking about buying one and running Linux on it. Well more likely an M2 that is. Ubuntu already can run on the M1 afaik.

Raspberry Pi4 hardware is strong enough for quite a lot of things, but for anything other than light gaming they would need some more serious GPU hardware. Then there's the matter of finding games for arm platforms, but that will depend on which games you'd like to run. Streaming is already fine - or would be, if the software took proper advantage of the existing hardware.

Also true, which is why I alluded to running a dedicated machine just for gaming/streaming and a separate ultra-low power 'box' for all other desktop stuff. Which for me is just the typical browsing,music,retro gaming stuff. id just make sure my next monitor has a built in KVM to swap between the two.

(although, it will be interesting to see if AMD bring a big/little core design in future where by for the casual stuff two low power cores are used. this might mean i would not use the Pi for that purpose)

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Id wait for the RDNA Ryzen APU to come out unless you are in desperate need of a SFF PC as that should be a significant performance boost.

As for their website it claims that the AMD RYZEN 7 4800H is 57% faster than the new Apple M1 ..
When clicking on the source of the claim that website the comparison is between an Intel CPU vs AMD.
When Linux gets good on the M1 or even in future on the M2, i would choose one of those over an X86 for a small form factor system as your not going to be AAA gaming or VR gaming on them anyway and the power usage is so much lower.

Im hoping that the next Raspberry Pi or Rockchip boards are enough of a boost to run a full PC desktop, they are close right now just a little bit more performance and then i can use a dedicated machine/console/streaming just for gaming.

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Correct me if im wrong but didn't the original starcrawlers have a seriously annoying mouse bug on the Linux release that the dev's were aware of but never fixed.
Im saying correct me but i ended up playing the game via proton because of it.

As for the game i found it to be mediocre. It's a shame as the concept and art was nice.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: LoftySmall niggle but the steam client used to show the physical URL including the appid on the old UI. Since they removed it, i have to go to the website and then find the game. You used to be able to look up the appid instantly in the actual client.

The article mentions how to re-enable showing the URL in the Steam client.

This is what i get for skim reading with one eye whilst juggling a hot flask of tea.

my bad. thanks for the tip.

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I like the idea of this project but once again as with the 'linux laptops' where are the AMD options ?

Im not very interested in anything currently Intel. (im not referring to the news articles btw so i appreciate the content).AMD have been knocking it out of the park with their mobile offerings this generation. This intel stronghold on 'boutique' mobile offerings might be some sort of Stockholm syndrome for businesses contracts or a Perhaps it's just a case of supply chain issues but for the informed consumer, especially Linux users AMD appears to be more exciting.

BTW i would like a laptop without a camera or microphone built in (hows about a truly modular laptop having the option to remove the modules). Both are usually of crappy quality and not something i tend to use ever. If i were to use one it would not be on an ad-hoc basis and more likely require a higher quality solution. In which case i could buy a clip on logitech model of much higher quality with in built mic and/or use a separate desktop microphone+camera

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Small niggle but the steam client used to show the physical URL including the appid on the old UI. Since they removed it, i have to go to the website and then find the game. You used to be able to look up the appid instantly in the actual client.
It's mentioned in the OP.

you can use this too..

https://steamdb.info/ [External Link]

type residentevil:

https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app&q=residentevil [External Link]

much quicker and less data to load vs the steam page.

hope this helps :happy:

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Perhaps people will end up uploading these builds to sites that are less visible. Perhaps such aggressive unthinking corporate ban hammers will only drive people underground to less censored, less controllable platforms.

Perhaps.

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