Snap needs to just die imo. Flatpak is the future! 😇

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Last I checked (must've been around a year ago) there was still a pretty huge performance hit, especially when running PT. Indiana Jones & the Great Circle with Supreme settings and full PT ran at 30fps for me in Linux, but 45fps in Windows on 7900 XT. Portal RTX was basically unplayable in Linux as soon as you got to the room where you get shot at. Now I got rid of Windows a few days ago so I can't really check how it is now, but it's nice to see continued improvements to RT performance

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Quoting: M@GOidThe hardware have potential, and their Windows drivers are getting attention.

But in Linux, their drivers are still very immature. They do fine on synthetic benchmarks, but in actual games they lag behind, like rear view mirror behind (right Pat?). It is clear they don't have dedicated developers for gaming, and everybody must have been allocated to the AI crazy efforts. And to make things worse, if memory is correct, they fired a couple developers from the Linux team last year.

So no, I would not get one of their new products until they get their shit together on the Linux front.

Agreed, Intel Linux drivers are absolute trash right now, I would not even consider an Intel GPU until they get this mess sorted. Although from what I've seen, it's unlikely to improve because they are bleeding Linux devs left and right. So that's that.

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the install trouble sounds very similar to my own Bazzite experience with the ROG Ally X, the Media Checker would get stuck at 4.8% and error out, and I could not do anything after that because it refused to let me use the iso because it was supposedly 'corrupted'. This is actually a known bug in the Fedora install media that's been present since at least 2016 (!!!) and it really caught me off guard. I had to connect a physical keyboard to be able to select the second GRUB option, that would skip the media check. Because of course the D-PAD did not work in GRUB. But after that, it went smoothly without a hitch.

This has been fixed since, the new live isos do not use media check, avoiding this problem altogether.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThe bespoke maintainer is antheas I guess? They were pushing other members away to the point I feared the community / distro would dissolve itself.

if you ask me, it has become a lot more pleasant since they left. Of course it's sad to lose any community member, especially if they were contributing so much as they were, but they made the right decision there I think.

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I agree with the overall sentiment on Kubuntu - it works fine for me, and I still run it on the PCs that I don't use for gaming, such as my server PC - but I switched to Bazzite in August on all my devices - AMD Desktop, Nvidia Laptop, Asus Ally X - and have not looked back. It's just so stable and polished and I love it. And annoyances that plagued me on Kubuntu - such as having to manually install Mangohud from script because the repo version is broken - are simply not an issue at all, because Mangohud is preinstalled, along with pretty much everything that you could possibly need for gaming.

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At first I was skeptical about Control: Resonant because it seems like a very different game from Control, but now I'm genuinely looking forward to it. I think it'll be very fun to play as Dylan

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I don't have many dx6 games, but it appears to work fine in TR: Chronicles so far🥰 I just love this project sooooooooooo much

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They were still making 32-bit processors in 2006, I had one of these (Intel Core Duo T2300 to be exact) in a Windows XP laptop, that I in turn got used. So I was basically still using a fully 32-bit OS until it broke (which must've been around 2016) but I think it's not inconceivable that some hardware from this era has survived to this day. After all, some MS-DOS-era hardware sill works today and is much older, from like the eighties.

However, even if it works, I very much doubt it would be good enough to run any remotely modern game. The small laptop that I had back then even struggled with games from its own era, such as the Sims 2, which can run fine on basically anything today.

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I thought I read something somewhere about the 64-bit client being unable to launch 32-bit games?

PCGamingwiki says this about the Linux client:

User requests for a native 64-bit client have been denied by Valve on numerous occasions since 2014, purportedly since such a client would be unable to launch 32-bit games.

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