Im lucky enough to be on a labtop with a 165hz display. Although I dont know if I could detect a difference with a 60 or even 30 hz display. Also, I try to be conservative with temperatures and try to not stress things to extend the hardware's life, so I will limit games to 60hz if i have the option in-game.

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Happy Birthday, Linux :)
I had been using it off-and-on since I received my first laptop in college. My first distros were openSUSE and Ubuntu in 2004. For the last 7 or so years, I've been using it exclusively for my home computing, mostly on Fedora.
I like that I can customize anything I want, package mangers, SELinux, and writing my own programs and sharing them.
I feel like I really own my OS, more than paying a price for it; I've paid with my time and effort.
Thanks to Linus for getting the party started, and thanks to everyone who has worked on the kernel and the entire universe of free software.

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I bought a bundle through the gamingonlinux partner link.

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Quoting: MayeulCSorry for the rant:

More marketing bullshit. MTr/mm² (million of transistors per square mm) was actually a nice unit. Spitting out stuff vaguely related to a number of nanometers, I can see myself needing to continue to explain for decades to come that no, gate lengths are still about 20 nm and the nanometers you are sold are just a proxy for transistor count (thanks to more and more 3D integration).

Plus, this reads like 20 Amperes, not 20 Ångströms. The symbol is Å. Granted, it's harder to write than to type on most keyboards.

OK, besides my gripe about marketingspeech, I'm glad to see they keep investing at the cutting edge. We need more competition!

I agree that a different unit makes more sense. The nm and Å make sense if youre assumimg a 2D layout. Maybe we'll settle on something more general like # gates / logic volume, hopefully with a simple abbteviation. Also, I just want to point out that 2 nm == 20 Å.

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The prototype was very chill, I'll be watching how the full game ... *grows*

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This looks good, I'll have to give it a test run.

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Solasta most of the week and a little Valheim yesterday. Solasta is pretty good so far 😁

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Quoting: BielFPsHey first world people, how is the situation about "gaming laptops with AMD gpu" out there? Here is currently impossible to even find something new without a Nvidia gpu, so I wonder if this is the case everywhere.

:removes monocle:

I have a Dell G5 SE with Ryzen and Radeon 5600m. [Dells store [External Link]]

It was getting *HOT*, very hot, when i first got it. Temperatures up to 100C. I've finally got it running cool with TLP, kernel 5.11, and an 'active cooling base' that has a fan in it. Overall the performance is great, it can run for example Pillars of Eternity 2 and stay around 45C.

But to your point, my options were very limited as to what to get. If i had known that a couple months later System76 would release the Pangolin, I would have waited, but then I'd still be waiting as theyre sold out! [System76 store [External Link]]

According to the AMD website [External Link] your options are MSI Alpha, MSI Bravo, and Dell G5.

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What's the gaming like on the Xe graphics?

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Quoting: RafiLinuxAs a person who's not played an RPG like this in decades which one is the most new player friendly to get?

I just played through BG1 for the first time. It was a fun experience that starts you off at level 1. I did a fairly completionist run that took about 100 hours of playtime, although Ive heard of people beating it in 35 hours. Either way its a pretty good intro for me. Ive also played some multiplayer years ago in IWD with game ranger, if you have friends you want to play with I'd recommend that, otherwise BG1.

Edit: Edit to say that Pillars of Eternity (I and II) are awesome if you're looking for a more recent vintage in the isometric crpg variety.

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