Yes, I know, I could also shut up but... You know which GPU brand doesn't require jumping through hoops and just works on Linux? :grin:

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Quoting: drlambjust needs removable batteries :sick:

What's wrong with removable batteries? You can buy rechargeable ones and they're easy to come-by! To me, it's the open-source of batteries :)

I have a rechargeable set of batteries I've been using for years with my Steam Controller. There's 4 of them, 2 always ready to go. Battery lasts for weeks (I don't play *that* often, heh), and once it runs out I immediately swap them with the other two and continue playing wirelessly. Zero wired charge time.

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Clock speed is a tricky metric. It is not comparable between CPUs, because each CPU does a different amount of work on each cycle. You can make a processor's clock go twice as fast, but have it do half the work every cycle just to artificially inflate the numbers.

I'm being a bit reductionist here. It is obviously *somewhat* comparable. Because most modern CPUs do similar kinds of work each cycle (perform an arithmetic operation, load a register, and whatnot). But I suspect there's quite a bit of marketing in these figures.

The only valid metric to compare CPUs is benchmarks. We'll see how well it fares on those :)

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Since I moved to AMD on Linux both on desktop and laptop I couldn't be happier. No more fiddling with broken drivers, no more waiting for a nouveau power management that's never going to come, no more desktop freezes and forced reboots, no more flags in the game's command lines to enable weird optimus workarounds, no more bumblebee (if that's still a thing nowadays)...

Things just work out of the box, so much so that you might forget your PC has a graphics card. Just launch your game and play! Every linux distro handles AMD out of the box, there's no extra step to make sure your card works or doesn't waste a crap ton of battery. It's a lot like the Steam Deck experience in that things just work out of the box.

I don't know why anybody would seriously consider nvidia for gaming on linux nowadays... This might be a bit of an exaggerated opinion, but I mainly see Nvidia as a tool for crypto scammers to prove they're wasting work (:sick:) and scientific computation (a.k.a. train neural networks). And the latter would be better off embracing open standards instead of that CUDA crap that forces them to write code in a proprietary pseudo-C abomination.

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Nice, I remember not being able to reach consistent 30FPS for this game on my Steam Deck, so I'm wondering if the new version will make performance a bit better.

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To all people comparing the prices. Are you aware you can get the basic version of the JSAUX dock for $38? It's not like you have to get the most expensive one. It's not just cheaper, it's *almost* a third of the price!

Sure, the basic version doesn't come with a display port, only HDMI... But guess what else doesn't have a display port, my living room TV! (and chances are, yours doesn't either). For all practical purposes, any JSAUX dock and the official valve one are identical to me, because guess what: A vast majority of users just want the cheapest USB-c dock shaped in such a way that will hold their console upright while they output HDMI to a TV screen.

And having gone through Valve's RMA process twice (both very bad experiences) since I got my steam deck, I don't consider being "valve official" any advantage when it comes to warranty anymore. But that's of course very sibjective, YMMV.

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Quoting: setzer22Ok, ok, I'll stop. I'm just a bit skeptical about their priorities, is all

Because AMD priorities are to serve your needs?

Well, I mean, in exchange for money but... yes? At least they make me feel like that, which is good enough to trick me into buying their stuff!

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Ah, nvidia drivers on linux, the thing that people use to train all those AI models to generate random images and text! Oh, and don't forget about the crypto scams!

Wait, you can actually play games? Using an Nvidia card? On a Linux Desktop? I thought that was AMD-only :grin:

Ok, ok, I'll stop. I'm just a bit skeptical about their priorities, is all

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Apropos killing the planet: Apparently, as one of their employees told me when I had to send in mine, Valve's RMA process consists of throwing away bad units and sending brand new ones.

I can't fully confirm this, but I can tell you the one I got back after RMA had a different serial number. And the problem I had could've been easily solved by swapping out the hard drive which is not even soldered in.

Although this is super wasteful, good news is you'll get a new deck sooner than expected if you send it in for repair. What's a little e-waste sitting on a dumpster between friends? /s

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I still don't understand how they hooked a machine learning algorithm into an automated system that could ruin some creator's livelihood and called it a day...

Next up, our taxes are going to be decided by some black box deep neural model based on how good of a citizen we are...

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