What is Amazon Prime Gaming, is it another game streaming service like Stadia?

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Quoting: TrainDocI understand the frustrations with a lack of amd gpus in high end laptops but I feel like one of a few who very pragmatically concedes that nvidia makes the best gpus you might be able to buy. Mind you, I hate their drivers and am very well aware of their still continued anti-competitive practices but again I struggle to justify the costs of a worse GPU. Unless AMDs drivers for their graphics cards (open source ones of course) improve the performance in my games so much over my 2070 Super, I don't understand the insistence on AMD only.

The insistence on all AMD comes from the fact that performance isn't the only thing to be concerned about. nVidia GPUs may be faster but the difference in performance does not justify the shortcomings in other areas like external displays, which so far is rubbish on nVidia gaming laptops.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is %75 off. Haven't played it myself, but it's next on my list after I finish God Of War. Has Very Positive rating on Steam and a Platinum rating in ProtonDB.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/287700/METAL_GEAR_SOLID_V_THE_PHANTOM_PAIN/

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Thanks, Liam, for the tip. That `PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60` completely saved the game for me.

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Very nice. It's been running pretty much flawlessly on my machine already and already very fluid. I'll give this a try, maybe DLSS can keep my GPU a bit cooler.

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Quoting: CFWhitmanThe way it says "2022 on Windows" seems to suggest that they might have plans for other platforms, but not definitely ready in 2022.

That's not how I understood it. I understand it as "release date is 2022, and platform is Windows".

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What's the point of this laptop and how is it different from the Oryx Pro, which is similarly powerful but thinner? For some reason System76 thinks that Linux enthusiasts who are asking for an AMD laptop are asking for an AMD CPU rather than an AMD GPU. Can someone clarifies this to them that we are actually asking for an AMD GPU, not CPU?

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What sort of gflops is expected from this RDNA2 integrated graphics? The Steam Deck has 1.6 tflops, which is impressive for a handheld, but not for a laptop. Is the Ryzen 6000 expected to have similar performance, or higher performance given that a laptop can have better battery and better cooling?

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Quoting: HolzkohlenWindows 11 takes up 64 gb? Seriously?

I have a drive with a freshly installed Windows 10, and by freshly I mean rally freshly installed with absolutely nothing added (I know this because I simply couldn't get Wifi or Ethernet to work so wasn't able to install anything, not even the drivers). It's currently sitting at 48.1 GB used! So, Windows 11 taking 64GB wouldn't be too far off from Windows 10. I'm not sure what the article means by saying Windows 10 needs a "minimum of 20GB"; maybe there are ways to minimize the installation to bring it down from ~48 to 20?

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Quoting: TermyDoes anyone know what the hell they are including to make it that big? Even with several proton-versions preinstalled it shouldn't get up to 10GB, let alone 24.
Or are they maybe going in the silverblue-direction and include a bunch of redundant libraries?

It's a regular Linux distro that can function like a regular desktop OS, so expect there to be drivers for all sorts of peripherals, entire library sets for GTK and Qt, the entire KDE desktop, as well as other OS tools like editors, store clients, media players, etc.

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