I'm just wondering what the AtariOS will be like... From what I understand, it's going to be "hardcoded" (might no be the right expression). Will it be required to boot another OS for any other "features" not included ootb on AtariOS? That wouldn't make it that much "feature rich" for the average Joe.

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Nice tool. It seems similar to Multisystem. Am I wrong?

https://www.unixmen.com/create-multiboot-usb-ubuntu-using-multisystem/ [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: MohandevirThinking the same, Liam. The concept is cool, but every news that comes out of it is one step closer to DOA. I'm pitying those that backed it and paid for what seems to be an overpriced and under featured experience.

I mean, Anstream? AirConsole? Seriously?

Where is Stadia? Where is Steam Link?

No indies onboard is already bad... Missing on those two is even worse, imo.

The theory is that it should be open enough to throw whatever on there.
What I would like to see is BPM of Steam becoming more PS4 like (with an app store for some streaming apps). Then you really could just through Steam Link app on it and use it as your multimedia center. Then it wouldn't even matter what the specs of the box are, as your gaming computer on the network would be the powerhouse for it.

Yep... But it would make for a pretty expensive streaming box. Even the Nvidia Shield is cheaper than that and I run RetroArch on it.

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Thinking the same, Liam. The concept is cool, but every news that comes out of it is one step closer to DOA. I'm pitying those that backed it and paid for what seems to be an overpriced and under featured experience.

I mean, Anstream? AirConsole? Seriously?

Where is Stadia? Where is Steam Link?

No indies onboard is already bad... Missing on those two is even worse, imo.

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Now' I'm experiencing motion sickness without a VR headset... :grin:

Joke aside, really happy to see that this is still happening. Thanks!

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I never found out how to play Rage2 without 15mins crashes, so I used my 10$ Stadia credit and bought it (reduced to 16$ , atm). So far, so good. On my Nvidia Shield the sideloaded Stadia app is a Little buggy, but in-game performances are awesome. Gave Grid a try too... Nothing bad to say about it.

On Steam, just tried the humble give-away, F1-2018. Nice game!

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: MohandevirBetween my GTX960 and GTX1660 Super, I briefly had an MSI Armor RX 580... It's been the best experience, all round, driver and performance wise, but did that thing was heating/noisy?! The cooling system failed after 6 months.

It made me mistrustful of AMD GPUs, but I was convinced, by more experienced GoL AMD users, to give Sapphire a shot... I'm looking forward to a Sapphire Pulse RDNA2 GPU, atm... Probably what will replace the actual RX 5600 XT. :wink:

The MSI Armor RX 580 OC was the noisiest GPU I've ever owned, and one of the fans died after less than a year of use. I swear I'll never trust MSI again.

My current Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT is nice and quiet.

You comfirm what I was told by Shmerl. :happy:

It seems there are brands specialized in Nvidia and brands specialized in AMD... From what I get, MSI is in the Nvidia camp.

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Since I began using Linux, I had a Radeon HD 6470, an Nvidia GT240, Nvidia GTX650, Nvidia GTX750ti, NVidia GTX960 and now GTX1660 Super... When will Nvidia offer a tearfree/stuttering free experience, ootb? In my personnal experience, it's always hit & miss between driver releases and between config setups. There is no "one size fits all" solution. I always have to tweak here and there depending on the game I play.

Oh yeah... There is GSync that I was able to test on a GTX980m gsync laptop... Awesome, but does it means that I will have to change all my desktop monitors/GPUs because Nvidia can't seem to propose a good driver? Selling gimmicks again?

Between my GTX960 and GTX1660 Super, I briefly had an MSI Armor RX 580... It's been the best experience, all round, driver and performance wise, but did that thing was heating/noisy?! The cooling system failed after 6 months.

It made me mistrustful of AMD GPUs, but I was convinced, by more experienced GoL AMD users, to give Sapphire a shot... I'm looking forward to a Sapphire Pulse RDNA2 GPU, atm... Probably what will replace the actual RX 5600 XT. :wink:

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Quoting: TheRiddickAllot of people think RTX and NGX is nonsense-ware but a rude awakening is going to hit them hard in 2021 and 2022! (maybe even late 2020).

I never said RTX won't become mainstream, but if it requires à 450$+ GPU, I'm bailing out. For me, flashy graphics is a nice to have, but should not be a necessity. Many AAA studios bet on the biggest and greatest graphics, but put much less effort in content and gameplay. I'll get into RTX, when it will be available for entry level gaming GPU, not before that. That's probably why AMD said it wasn't ready for Prime time and it's not all games that will use it, not for a couple of years still.

BTW...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/More-evidence-points-towards-AMD-s-RDNA2-Big-Navi-superiority-over-Nvidia-s-high-end-Ampere-RTX-3000-GPUs.482368.0.html [External Link]

On AMD's RTX version (Radeon Rays):
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-Rays-4.0-Released [External Link]

Obviously, performances are still to be proven, but RTX is on the way to RDNA2 and if it's still to be believed:

"In November 2018, David Wang, AMD’s senior vice president of engineering at the Radeon Technologies Group, told 4Gamer, “Utilization of ray tracing games will not proceed unless we can offer ray tracing in all product ranges from low end to high end.”"

... We might end up with a Radeon Rays RDNA 2 sub 300$ AMD GPU before long.

Source:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-amd-plans-ray-tracing/ [External Link]

In the meanwhile, believe me, I'll turn off RTX without a second tought, if it's possible (if it ever shows up on non supported gpus).

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: MohandevirPlagman was quite clear that they were seriously considering an alternative to Debian. SteamOS 2.0 is based on Debian 8, which is now eol and SteamOS 3.0 (Debian 9) was never released:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/seems-valve-do-intend-to-go-back-to-steamos-at-some-point.16291

Also, I thought they had a beta on 9 or 10?

The answer is in my initial comment.

http://repo.steamstatic.com/steamos-clockwerk/ [External Link]

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