Quoting: mamillerAll of my friends are playing EU4, but to be fair: it's too complicated for me :cry:
I'm going to stay with Civilization 5

Heh, I am still with the original dos civ.

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Great!

This game happens to be March's game over at www.dosgameclub.com , so I may actually check it out ^_^

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: M@GOidusing only the iGPU on a modern AMD processor

iGPU on a modern AMD CPU, sounds familiar...
I don't think you can run all games @ 1080p 60 FPS though, even at low (fine for me) settings.

When, in the history of pc gameing has that ever been the case with the entry-level option, though?

As for "(entry level) pc gameing has gotten too expensive nowadays" comments from others, consider:

One would be able to manage 60fps 1080p easily with a $160 rx6500xt, which is roughly in line with the historically "fairly decent and cheap" price point (without any inflation correction nonsense some people like to throw at you).

There's a whole range of video card options between the historically normal price range of $80-$400(ryzen 4600g), from the lowly ryzen 4600g's igpu right up to the rx6700 (non xt), the latter of which just happens to have the theoretical specs of the ps5's gpu.

The only thing one has to do is not follow gpu makers, tech press and some rather elitist enthusiasts, who are spreading this bizarre notion that one needs a $1000 video card to enter the hobby.

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Gentle reminder that fwupd supports 8bitdo's controllers. Not sure how it would be handled on the steam deck and other systems, but in ubuntu that means you can update their firmware with a simple click, directly from the software centre.

Updating firmware is very much recommended for older 8bitdo controllers, since that solves most problems with disconnecting and unusually high lag over bt.

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It's anecdotal, but for me the more recent lts editions of ubuntu have had an increase in papercuts (even after a fresh install), like the lock screen locking up (heh) and thinkpad trackpad drivers not being installed properly. Solvable issues, but they were not there in 18.04 and are not the sort of issues that newcomers would want to deal with.

Strangely enough (given that it is based on ubuntu), mint didn't have those problems.

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Quoting: raptor85...
There's still 100 watt and less cards on the market widely available, nobody's putting a gun to your head forcing you to get a higher end card.
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I'm sure people in Pakistan are happy to know that nobody put a gun on our heads to buy goods with a high energy consumption.

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Recently made sure that Chris Sawyer and John Broomhall (composer) also got their dues by buying transport tycoon mobile. Not touching that version with a ten-foot pole, but the remastered music is a great drop-in for openttd ^_^

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They're also working on the 227j patch for unreal gold. Apparently, it will feature native linux and even raspberrypi 4 compatibility :woot:

Source: https://www.oldunreal.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7657&p=75611&hilit=raspberry#p75611 [External Link]

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From the press release: "What sets the Thelio desktop line apart from other desktops is its system-specific thermal engineering. The internals are engineered for optimal airflow, allowing the user’s components to perform at their best.

Colour me highly sceptical of the benefits of this carry-over from laptops. This is an extremely competitive area of case/cooler design, making it doubtful that their engineering can approach existing off-the-shelf solutions, that would have had the additional advantage of adhering to standards.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism...

Ubuntu has a paywall for their OS download

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Just checked, and at the moment they don't have one. As far as I know, they never had one. The "worst" I recall having seen from canonical in this area is a pre-download donation request which was easily skipped.

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