Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: samurro

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: gardotd426New hardware needs rolling releases to work, unless you want to compile from source, use custom kernels, are comfortable in TTY's, etc.

No. You just need drivers (kernel, possibly Mesa) that support your hardware. If you can easily get those from a PPA or other optional repository, why would you need a rolling distro? You might have plenty of other valid reasons to prefer Arch, but they aren't likely to enhance your gaming in any meaningful way.

Sorry but thats simply untrue. Rolling releases is the way to go instead of adding ridicolous amounts of extra repositories, esp for a beginner, thats a very negative habit.

For a complete Linux beginner obviously Ubuntu is a neat starting place. Still I would also recommend against anything Ubuntu like.

Ridiculous amounts or repositories? You find it hard to count to two? Because you won't need more than that if you just need a new kernel and GPU drivers.

Nothing untrue about what I said.

The problem is and has always been that those repositories are third party and don't always get updated in time or get abandoned.
This is why Snap and Flatpak are a thing as well, to try to get newer versions into Linux without having to resort to a rolling release.
Granted I just run Debian Sid on most of my desktops for the rolling release, which gives me a lot of benefits. :)

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Ha, by the way, my issues with the original Tomb Raider (Reboot) was due to using Wayland, not Xorg.
Min fps, 67.5
Max fps 121
Average fps 101.4

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: RafiLinuxThis is interesting. If I can see it in action, I may replace my HTPCs with it.

Anything in particular you'd like to see?

I'm interested, too.

1. Price is not that bad...
a) Free Access to 100 games.
b) Two controllers instead of the "usual" one.

2. How many bluetooth devices can be connected... 4?

3. Did you test Rise... and Shadow of the Tomb Raider? Can you get stable 30-60 FPS @720 or even @1080 with low, mid, high settings? I think these are the most demanding games in my lib.

4. Is the 32GB eMMC fixed internal storage fast? How long does it need to boot into Atari OS (Debian 10)?

5. Are there 2 RAM slots or only one?

6. Can you access BIOS and enable PXE?

1) a) Yeah, and it comes with a free month or year (can't remember if the year was for backers only) of Antstream, which has thousands of games to stream?
b) controllers are nice too!

2) I have connected 3 (the two controllers and a Thinkpad bluetooth keyboard that has the little trackpoint on it) haven't tried more.

3) installing Shadow, will get back to you on that...

4) it certainly feels fast. It has a little animation as it boots up. Seems zippier niw that I have 32gb of ram.

5) two slots. Uses DDR4 2400

6) The UEFI is password protected, about the only thing open currently is the boot manager selection. Which basically means you can boit to either the primary or backup Atari partitions, USB devices or something that was inserted there by an installer. I assume that means you could feasibly inject a PXE startup in there somehow. (It has been my experience that PXE doesn't work well in UEFI, but that just may have been particular Dell models.)

Edit: Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Average FPS: 19
Frames Rendered: 3035
1289x720@60hz low settings.

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Quoting: TheRiddickShame this couldn't sell for $99usd or something, I think it would actually be quite a success at that price point, but at the price point just short of next-gen consoles, its a bit much. I'd rather buy a Nvidia Shield TV box.

Well I mean if you add in the price of the 32gb memory upgrade and slapping in an m.2 SATA drive, it becomes the same price. But this is a nice little Linux game box with some personality to it. And the fan isn't as whiny as every playstation I have ever heard!

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Quoting: einherjarThanks that you did not recommend Manjaro to beginners.

My son is actually switching back to Kubuntu.

Within 2 month he has to reinstall the 2nd time, because Manjaro does not start after an update is made.

"enjoy the simplicity" ???

LOL!

I am using Linux since 1998 and can not remember when (or even if ever) I had such an issue the last time with Ubuntu, Kubuntu or openSuse.

There was a period of time I'd recommend Ubuntu for beginners, but after having witness it completely trash someone's partitions (it looked like the drive was failing, but the drive was fine, Ubuntu just ate the install), I have just been setting up Debian Stable for people with backports enabled and that works very stable and doesn't break in weird ways, it's just the initial set up needs a little bit more work to be as smooth.

Then again the only steps I usually do are to set up plymouth, make sure the firmware blobs are installed for the hardware, and fix apt to have deb-multimedia, non-free, contrib.

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Quoting: elmapul"Sound Blaster AE-7 is now supported"
this model was relased july 2019?

ha, I bought one of these because I'd read on reddit that it was already supported... Well it wasn't mainstreamed yet, so wasn't really working right, even though it was detected and I configured it, I couldn't actually get it to produce sound. So I pulled it back out of my system. I bought it initially because I was hearing a popping in the onboard realtek crap. Well that started to go away, but I still have the AEX-7, so hopefully I can put it back into my system shortly.

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I don't know about anyone else, but now I want some KFC. :P

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Within RetroPie, the Atari 'modern' controller acts a little odd. Hotkey seems to sort of work (EmulationStation detected it, but the emulators don't). But you can set it to xbox 360 mode and it works as expected that way.

jstest-gtk detects the Atari controller as having 9 axis / 9 buttons, whereas the xbox 360 controller shows up as 8 axis / 11 buttons. Granted it still has that weird issue I've seen in all xbox 360 controllers where the right analog stick is confused with the triggers.

The thing that has always annoyed me about RetroPie and similar of course is that if I try to use a controller that isn't the new standard (xbox/ps2+ style) then you have an issue with navigating. I'll have to try the Atari Joystick to see if I can get a good set up especially for 2600 / 5200 / 7800. Though I do have a 5200 to USB adapter on the way, so will have to try some 5200 games that way! (even though my 5200 is sitting inches from my VCS).

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: RafiLinuxThis is interesting. If I can see it in action, I may replace my HTPCs with it.

Anything in particular you'd like to see?

GamerOS (to make a Steam machine)? Kodi?

Apparently there is a tool called Ventoy that lets you inject a secure boot key into an installer. So I'll probably try something like that again (once I get my m.2 ssd, which should arrive today.)

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Quoting: jake-the-dondorianI can chip in here, if anyone's interested, that itch numbers are 538 windows against 116 Linux. Generally I love itch.io with the bottom of my heart, especially their interface for me as a dev, and it's a shame it's not picking up more traffic.

Also the demo has been updated to V53, which is the game as it was released in September on Steam.

I'll be honest and say I'm lazy, if I could 'apt install itch.io' I'd use it more.

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