Quoting: peta77this sounds like it will make a lot of noise... when this power demands increase go on like that at some point i'll have to get an additional powerline just to run the GPU of one computer...

One weird thing: the online shop I buy my stuff at lists Linux as supported system for the 6800XT but not for the 6900XT...

I have Sapphire Pulse RX 6800 XT - it's really quiet in general.

Linux support listed for the card doesn't mean much. They are all supported by amdgpu and Mesa by now.

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GPU situation is starting to improve slightly, but I think realistically it won't recover fully at least until 2022 or when new TSMC foundries will start working whenever that will be.

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Will it be already DDR5 by the time Zen 4 is out?

Zen 3 / RDNA 2 kind of had hard time - because of chip shortages they were pretty hard to get. By the time shortages will get significantly better it will be already Zen 4 / RDNA 3 probably.

Though CPUs aren't that hard to get already, but GPUs are still very overpriced.

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Quoting: 1xokI think Ethan Lee and others are looking for new jobs. Just saying.

I don't think they should look at Frozenbyte then. I suppose making their own games is an option too if they want to stay in the gaming industry that is.

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Quoting: GuestActually their statement is worse in my opinion: native or not, no support at all for running their games on GNU/Linux by any means. I doubt anyone can take a platform seriously if there's no support for it.
A depressing statement. Not that Trine3 ever ran (at all) for me, but Trine and Trine2 were great.

What makes this even worse is that Trine 4 is on Stadia.

I think they simply don't have Linux developers. So you should read their statement as "we'll hire some if Steam Deck will be a success". I suspect someone else did Stadia work for them.

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Quoting: GuestI believe even recent Intel iGPUs (and CPUs) require firmware blobs too. There's no real escaping them from any major vendor these days.

In theory, AMD could make a FOSS firmware, if it would be stripped of its DRM (i.e. HDCP) related bits. I don't think they have any ideological objections, it's more like "not worth the effort" type of issue I think from their perspective.

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Baldur's Gate 3 is using Vulkan already, so they can make a native version with less hassle than others.

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Sounds like an idea to propose to make a Plasma console, like they have Plasma mobile.

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I'd be OK less with a manager and more simply with an OS UX for launching something from an existing launcher (like .desktop file you create yourself somehow). But that it would be easy to use with such controller setup.

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By the way, speaking of the UI. Is there some FOSS console oriented GUI now? Let's say I want to play GOG games, itch games or whatever other games on it without using Steam. What are the options? Using KDE Plasma as is, while holding it like a console probably isn't a good idea.

I'm not a big fan of closed source UIs in general.

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