What disappoints me the most is the power consumption, but that was to be expected. Still a good option but I may prefer the RX 6600 over it, and buy the generation that comes after.

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Quoting: Eschguy

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI can vouch that the Torchlight series is really good....... Both are great games.......

Yep, both are great. I think I prefer the first one, but 2 has multiplayer. Too bad they didn't make any more of them.

I also recommend playing these two. Worthy of note, Diablo 1 & 2 game designers were involved in the creation of the first two Torchlight games.

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To think this device could have been $50 cheaper without the Windows licence...

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That's nice to see because DXVK is not tied to Wine and Proton, and can be used very efficiently for native gaming. Allowing devs to port their games natively without the hurdle of rewriting their graphic stack or learning yet another language -- especially when it's a solo project -- is valuable.

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CoD exclusivity on Xbox would actually be a good thing: I'm tired of seeing people playing that poor excuse of a game, and that would be a good opportunity to push more interesting IPs forward.

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Quoting: brokeassben

Quoting: HohlraumI love what Fedora does but once I started using other package systems 25+ years ago it's really hard to give up the massive package repositories provided by deb and arch based distributions. Finally, they've tried for years to improve the speed of their package managers but they are terrible every time I give them a try.

Same. My first Linux experience was Red Hat then Fedora once the first version of that released. Didn't realize how slow rpm packages were until I switched to Debian and Arch based distros. Maybe I'll give it another go now that Flatpaks are so common and don't have to rely on rpms so much.

This has changed a great deal when Fedora switched to DNF. I've used both Arch and Debian for several years and I could barely tell the difference.

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Quoting: ShabbyXNever had I paid so much attention to power until the Steam Deck, and specifically just a few days ago when I started replaying Shadow of Mordor. I went in with the expectation that I should set everything to low, ended up setting everything to Ultra and it still runs the game at 40fps without hitches and consumes just 12 watts.

It looks crazy now that a desktop GPU's _idle_ power is as much as the Steam Deck playing a not-so-basic game.

I think nVidia are taking a particularly wrong turn energy-wise with the 'Lovelace lineup.
Let's hope AMD is able to react wisely as their latest low-energy offerings have been disappointing with their PCI-E bandwith. What we need is a PCI-E 16x low-power GPU to take the 75W crown, and nobody delivers in that category...

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4AGames are great devs who keep delivering. Hope to see another of their games hitting Linux anytime soon.

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It seems Square can't do well rounded ports...

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Quoting: zastrix

Quoting: omer666The driver keeps needing manual recompiling of the kernel module on Fedora 37, which is pretty annoying

Couldn't you just install akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion? I'm running fedora silverblue 37 so that's basically the only way for me to install the nvidia drivers.

BUT I need to wait for the new drivers to actually be posted on the repo. I did have the issue of a passive DP->HDMI port not showing the correct refresh rates as I posted on this thread here [External Link] on the developer forums.

I am indeed using akmod from RPMFusion, the module compiles automatically but the driver can't find it. I need to pass dnf remove kmod-nvidia* and then akmods --force and reboot.
Don't you have the same problem on Silverblue?
Maybe my install is getting a bit old...

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