Mainly, I'm just delighted to see AMD push out a card on a par with and hopefully exceeding Nivida's best offering. Nvidia have had a large chunk of the 20xx series and all of the 30xx series largely unchallenged. Great to see some real competition.

On a personal level, I've just bought my 5700XT and it plays every game I own at 4K with no hiccups (GOL Discord user, Michael, has a great series of videos demonstrating the 5700XT's 4K performance on their Youtube channel [External Link] - all the vids from about April onwards are the 5700XT), but who doesn't love a bit more power and future proofing? And that Ray Tracing... that's going to be big in the coming months and years. Unlike PhysX, Ray Tracing is properly cross-platform (or will be soon) and I think it's going to take off in a pretty big way.

I might take a look at upgrading early next year, assuming the prices don't sky rocket thanks to mining (again).

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: WJMazepas

Quoting: GuestMy RTX 2080 is (barely) mid-tier 1440p card.

Cmon people, you guys are seriously giving attention to someone who says things like that?
It's a guy saying that you should not buy something because of your ideologies and is defending Nvidia at every possible chance

Do you have that card? Have you seen any benchmark for it? Do you even know how to choose a GPU? Probably no to all.

Wow, Lunix. You're a real piece of work. Please lighten the tone. Please. Please don't call people liars directly or indirectly. Please stop generalising everything into "for you" and "against you". Please.

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It's pretty clear that lunix hasn't used an AMD card on Linux and thinks that the Nvidia "way", which is quite similar to the Windows way is the only way. It's not. I don't have any AMD tools on my box. I hated wrestling with Nvidia-settings on my GTX1080. Even having to install a driver reminded me of Windows...

Frankly, I don't appreciate the condescending tone in your reply to my original comment either, lunix. I take into account open source drivers in my purchasing decisions, you don't. There's no need to make me sound like I'm somehow an idiot for doing so, is there?

But you go on. You imply that my (until an hour ago) top-of-the-range AMD card is "entry level" and can't power a 4K screen... I... what? It runs everything at 4K, 60fps, full settings, so far. Actually, I guess it's much more than that, since I bought this card for VR and I get 90Hz on both 1440 x 1600 eyes. And since the AMD driver is so far ahead of the Nvidia driver for VR, I get async reprojection for a smoother overall experience. It's quiet too.

And you imply I'm an idiot for running X, on a single display, instead of Wayland on multiple displays too? Jesus, gimme a break. I don't know how to respond to that, so I won't.

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Quoting: GuestEvery product is different and the ideology is the least important difference between them.

For you. Not for me. The ethos of a company, its ethical stance, and its impact on fostering a cultural shift to open methodologies is the single most important aspect of choosing my hardware. Then it's performance, then it's heat/noise/efficiency. Finally, its price comes into consideration.

It's weird to me that you're commenting on a Linux site and don't understand this, or somewhat buy into it. But I suppose as Linux increases in popularity, there will be more and more people like yourself who don't care about open standards (or least, care as much as others do).

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After what they did to Oculus, I'm gonna give this one a body swerve, as I suspect most Linux gamers would anyway. I agree with TheSHEEEP - we're not the target audience here.

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardopurge gtk3-nocsd

Note: Ubuntu specific as far as I can tell from a number of bug reports in the last few days.

It doesn't exist in Mint 20 by default. I've just re-installed my laptop, so this is a pretty clean install though. Perhaps other apps pull it in.

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Well, it's on sale now. As usual, I bought it on Itch.io for $15 (I added a $5 tip), only to discover, as morbius notes... I'd already bought it.

Honestly, I don't mind paying money for quality and I'm looking forward to playing this so I don't mind... in this case.

But why the hell does Itch allow you pay twice for content you already own??? It's just an awful concept. I was logged in, this is in my library, and yet Itch let's me pay for it again? What the hell are they thinking?

I think less of Itch for allowing this, even if, as I say, I don't mind in this particular case.

- Edit to add, I'm running Mint 20 which is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and it runs perfectly.

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Instabuy. Simples. Yes, it looks very similar to the first game, but I'm down with that. I loved this, I loved Immortal Redneck, and (with Proton) I loved Gunfire Reborn and Mother Gunship. This whole room-based FPS roguelite has loads of life left in it. And I'm here for it.

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Quoting: einherjarAnd there the typical Internet Drama of these days is seen again (Twitter "outrage" etc.)

Calm down, he has an opinion and it is different from what the most people think about that topic. So what?

Before the internet and Twitter and its peers, most people fumed ineffectively in private at publicly voiced, but terrible, sometimes even abusive opinions. Even large social circles opposing that public voice rarely got media attention. What you're seeing here, in these modern times is simply a reflection of the voice of the masses.

Finally! We don't need that big media attention to oppose an uninformed, or abusive take.

So I don't get your "calm down". Is your "calm down" simply that you don't care about those opinions? Fine. Ignore them. You cared enough to comment here though - ironically feeding into the discussion you appear to despise.

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Quoting: melkemindThe DMCA is a gross abuse of copyright. It always has been, and that includes the music industry's greedy exploitation of it. Copyright was never meant to be used this way. I say this as a librarian who remembers all the harm it did when it was first passed.

I think so too, but there needs to be some kind of mechanism for reporting abuse of copyright. I just don't know what a better solution looks like.

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