Just like Apple products can suck ass -- more expensive doesn't always mean better.

On LINUX -- that thing that we use, the AMD story is much better than other OS'es.

My reply to their nonsense?

<3 <3 <3 OPEN SOURCE DRIVER OR GTFO. <3 <3 <3

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Quoting: stretch611With AMD working much better with linux now than it was previously, nVidia might be starting to see the light that a few lost sales in the future will start adding up. They are probably trying prevent this from happening.

I call it the Sales Multiplication Effect. The more people that buy a product, the more people that buy the product.

Instead of praising nVidia, as a X-nVidia user I have the strong urge to say: what took them so long?

AMD MESA Open Source driver is the bomb on Linux.

Intel is releasing a dedicated GPU in 2020.

Both of those have open source drivers.

Linux represents the most technically able of the computer world, we influence everyone else strongly.

Nvidia better get their shit together and release a open driver and not fuck us with false advertising in the future or they are going to experience a shitty 2020s I can promise them that.

Actually AMD has reassigned a key designer that assisted in Ryzen to apply techniques to AMD graphics that were applied to Zen architecture, so AMD already going strong is gonna have the biggest can of whoop-ass to lay on nVidia.

The sun and the moon trade places, and so I predict that Nvidia will be greatly weakened in 2-4 years with Intel entering the game and AMD stepping their game up hardcore.

Edit: I sincerely feel bad for any of you who have had to endure the shit that is Nvidia PRIME. How bout we put a couple shotgun shells through that trash and move on to better shit.

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Quoting: GuestIt would be awesome, but also very bad because Valve would be in complete control.

Be realistic. Where would Linux Gaming be in 2018 if Valve hadn't stepped in in 2013. Valve already is a MAJOR influence and has some measure of control.

Can we stop acting like abused children who are scared of someone who is not us being in control? Valve have proved themselves trustworthy and I expect things to stay that way as long as Gaben is alive.

Quoting: GuestWine is the worst what ever happened to Linux gaming.

What a ridiculous polarized extreme statement. I resent such blatant FEAR mongering.

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Valve might be adding support for compatibility tools to enable you to play games on operating systems they weren't designed for, like Wine.

This would be a absolutely brilliant full-steam-ahead tactic! The majority of /r/pcgaming has said that they would switch to Linux if all their games worked.

As a 2018 tactic, it's brilliant, maybe around 2025 it can be depreciated after the platform war for gaming is over and our market-share explodes.

I am actually looking forward to playing some old windows games hassle-free -- Rock of Ages, Burnout Paradise and the Final Fantasy series that I already bought but haven't touched since I went full Linux and had no time to dick around setting them up.

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ VOVO TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

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I personally dig this game, looks like a riot of fun, so hopefully they get their technical challenges sorted and we're on our way soon.

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This is probably also useful for Valve as well, since it's one less thing they will need to maintain themselves for SteamOS directly.

My thoughts exactly, if they do the leg work and get it into mainline then they can refocus on other tasks and improvements and let the community tweak it was needed.

The whole Linux platform stack seems like it's in a pretty good place save little quirks or snags here or there.

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I can't recommend Distance enough, it's a fantastic game, although I can't compare it to other racer franchises 1:1. It's its own experience and the 4 player local play is fun too.

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This is lit! Message me when it's out I'll give it a run.

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October eh? I have been waiting to go AMD on the CPU, I'm down hopefully they have some Mini ITX motherboards that kickass.

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Quoting: KunamashinaAnyone got SteamOS running on AMD VEGA GPU? Mine is only black screen after booting.

Trying to update to latest kernel through virtual console but for some reason it stays 4.14 and no apt-get update or upgrade helps getting that 4.16 where I hope ryzen will work

RxVega64 is my GPU anyone have some advice how to get steamos to show display?

You probably need to hit escape or "e" @ GRUB and add the VEGA snippet of code to enable or try "nomodeset".

Then do as suggested and opt into Beta maybe.

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Valve, where when mistakes are made, fixes shortly follow.

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