I think we have pretty much the same system Liam, ha! 5800x w/ 6800xt.

Normally I build a new machine every 4 / 5 years, so that time is basically now, but I'm going to wait at LEAST for the next gpu cycle (what is that, mid year next year we think for next radeon generation?) and these cpus are very underwhelming, so very easy to pass on.

Also I wanted to link to the phoronix article on these, a lot of great info there in case you're wondering!

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x [External Link]

For myself (and Liam and I'm sure others), this is a good page:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x/16 [External Link]

which lists our processors scoring a 55, and the new 9700x scoring a 90. I know benchmark scores don't mean a ton in real life settings, but still that's a big jump.

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Quoting: CZiNTrPTI'm using Manjaro on my desktop and I'm happy with it? What's so wrong about it that it's usage stats are shrinking?

I was a user for about a year, and quit because despite being a "rolling" distro, they were quite the opposite, at least for me. This was back when KDE was releasing Plasma (I don't remember which version number) that came with a very specific feature I really wanted to use, but Manjaro delayed it by months and months and months for no apparent reason, and no comments or discussion about it. Meanwhile every single other distro already had it. I could have moved to experimental branch but after waiting for what I considered a long time with no updates or communication I had had enough. Moved to Tumbleweed and love it here.

I think the article author on boilingsteam just doesn't see a reason for its existence anymore in 2024. It's not the same insane complicated process to get regular arch up and running that it once used to be. And since regular arch has such a high share, might as well just use that and join in that community which is very large.

If I ever switch off of Tumbleweed, it'll be for Fedora. They also have a large active community that helps so much.

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https://boilingsteam.com/linux-distro-july-2024/ [External Link]

Manjaro seems to be fading away according to those stats. Over the past two years it's lost a ton, and if that continues, in another two years (or less) it'll be totally gone. I know those stats don't represent every single linux gaming computer out there, but still, it's something to go on. I am a direct contributor to those stats though. I used to use manjaro, but didn't like it and switched from it to opensuse and have been very happy ever since.

BoilingSteam specifically says this about Manjaro:

The one thing I’m confident about is the fact that Manjaro is probably going to fall even further. I just don’t see a reason for it to exist, and it has destroyed its own credibility over and over again.

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today I was listening to my favorite podcast (twit) and they were getting deep into the whole intel thing. It ............. well let's just say .......... it wasn't very good lol. I don't think anyone on the panel had any hope for them at all. They were all comparing intel to kodak. Ouch.

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It's all just a symptom of a capitalist system that is totally and utterly broken and incentivizing the polar opposite for what a company needs to succeed.

Between your damning comment which I think is spot on, and the damning WSJ articles that just keep coming out, I honestly don't have much faith in intel to do any kind of turnaround of ............. anything at all. They'll just keep doing short term shoot-themselves-in-the-foot moves to pacify the broken wall street incentives, and slowly just crumble away. All titans fall, and Intel sure was a titan at some point, but that point has long passed, and now it appears we may be in the late years of an elderly company unable to adapt to current market trends, or even manage to stand up on it's own.

Sure, Intel may still to this day hold a huge chunk of the present market, but I still don't believe that means anything for long term. Markets are shifting at an insanely rapid pace around the world, and intel is like a sloth covered in molasses who's been darted by a tranquilizer.

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Quoting: JarmerEVERYONE SHOULD REPEAT THIS AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE:

CEO Pat Gelsinger made $17 million in 2023 alone. That was a 45% raise from his 2022 salary of $12 million. This asshole took almost a 50% raise (what normal person ever gets anywhere close to that), laughed, turned around, and fired THOUSANDS of people.

If the company you are leading has to cut 15k people because of insane ramblings like "revenue has not grown as expected" then surely he will take a 90% cut next year, right? RIGHT?

I work for Intel.

Believe me, us employees are not going to be quiet about this.

Good!! I hope you survived the 15k, and also hope that you all can get together and make some impactful change.

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Quoting: ShmerlIs GOG version coming? Looks like a perfect game for it.

It appears GOG is totally ignoring them? They have submitted multiple times with no response. This and many other threads are full of similar stories about GOG's mismanagement. Really sad. But of course this is the outfit that has a client that officially supports Mac but not Linux. Just total incompetence over there.

They say they'll try to release the 1.0 on gog, but at this point I can't support them so Steam it is for me.

Discussion on steam about this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1592280/discussions/0/5161702937819115219/ [External Link]

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I tried doing a playthrough of Dragons Dogma 2, but unfortunately it kept crashing / hard locking my entire system repeatedly, so it was unplayable. Looking online (protondb) there are lots of other reports of this, so I guess the game just needs lots of patches (or just forget about it entirely).

So I have been focusing on Zoria Age of Shattering and having a blast! I think I may be nearing the end, but it's been a super fun game.

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EVERYONE SHOULD REPEAT THIS AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE:

CEO Pat Gelsinger made $17 million in 2023 alone. That was a 45% raise from his 2022 salary of $12 million. This asshole took almost a 50% raise (what normal person ever gets anywhere close to that), laughed, turned around, and fired THOUSANDS of people.

If the company you are leading has to cut 15k people because of insane ramblings like "revenue has not grown as expected" then surely he will take a 90% cut next year, right? RIGHT?

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man, by the time this game hits release it's going to be one of the best retro fps' ever made. This is amazing for the genre. Push some other devs to do more with their own releases!

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