I dont understand how the announcement of a new Nintendo handheld could affect Steamdeck sales that drasticall. Besides beeing handhelds both devices have hardly anything in common in my opinion. A Steamdeck cant replace a Nintendo Switch and vice versa.

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I own a Tuxedobook and i must say that the device is worth the money. Yes it is more expensive then an equaly configured Notebook with Windows, but Tuxedobooks are far more configureable and easy to upgrade. And Linuxsupport is the other factor that needs to be valued in my opinion. Linuxforums are full with questions why hardwarecomponents (wifi,Bluetooth,touchpads etc) are not working when you try linux as a desktop OS on a Notebook. With devices from Tuxedo you get a flawless experience in that regard. We are using an desktop OS that has a marketshare around 4% and we should be happy that companies like Tuxedo are there to make shure that using Linux is enjoyable.

The GPU in this configuration is indeed to weak and has not enough VRAM to make it futureproof. The choice for the CPU Modell on the other hand is a comprehensible one given the fact how poor the support for things like videoencoding / decoding is on Linux. Having a beefy CPU is far more essential on Linux then on Windows.

Personaly i never needed a Notebook to replace a desktopsystem because i always had both. My Notebook is used for Office and Web on the go. My desktop is at home doing the heavy lifting stuff like gaming and videoediting.

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This game is a bad joke on linux regardless of the fact that it has been released as Version 1.0 now. At least on an AMD GPU (RX 6700 XT with MESA 24.0.1) at 1080p it is unplayable. Minimap and Overlaymap are broken. Performance is horrible with stuttering regardless of the overall qualitysettings. UI effects like loading indicator on the loadingscreen are absent.

I know the game works better on Nvidia GPU'S but the steamstorepage mentions support for AMD GPU'S. I wonder if this game was tested on AMD GPU's at all before release. Perhaps they tested it with the proprietary OpenGL Driver. However with MESA Drivers this is not enjoyable right now.

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Quoting: ripper81358

Quoting: I_Hate_Windows@Lofty: "it's more inconvenient to use the nvidia driver i agree. Although i have had issues adding 3rd party MESA PPA's to my Mint install. The Oibaf one in particular comes to mind. Perhaps the Kisak one is more stable and i would have more luck with that ? These days for my gaming needs i prefer to use an Arch based Distro."

exactly, i distro hopped for 2 months looking for "the one", it didnt exist lol but i found garuda gnome after trying the kde version, welp it might be less customizable but it looks more modern and runs faster, its instant, its arch based so you get pacman and all of the aur at your arsenal, i use pop os tiling manager from pacman called pop-shell, then i build gamescope-session-git from the aur to make a steamos at log in to choose from, its a seperate desktop environment that is based on the game mode of steamdeck, so far this is the best os in existence, it is also not immutable like steam os so it is actually meant for daily use, rolling release, newest everything every day lol, included update manager and install manager, this is why i want to roll all this into one neat tidy little package so i dont have to explain all this, i can just say, use this distro because i have over 2k worth of hardware and it performs better than windows ever could

Oibaf ppa contains in development MESA, Kisak ppa is for the latest stable MESA drivers. I have been on Kubuntu as long as the distribution exists. I use the regular release. So i get two complete updates each year. In my opinion this is a good compromise regarding up to date packages and stability. I add the kisak ppa, the kubuntu backports ppa and flatpaksupport to it and i am done.

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Quoting: I_Hate_Windows@Lofty: "it's more inconvenient to use the nvidia driver i agree. Although i have had issues adding 3rd party MESA PPA's to my Mint install. The Oibaf one in particular comes to mind. Perhaps the Kisak one is more stable and i would have more luck with that ? These days for my gaming needs i prefer to use an Arch based Distro."

exactly, i distro hopped for 2 months looking for "the one", it didnt exist lol but i found garuda gnome after trying the kde version, welp it might be less customizable but it looks more modern and runs faster, its instant, its arch based so you get pacman and all of the aur at your arsenal, i use pop os tiling manager from pacman called pop-shell, then i build gamescope-session-git from the aur to make a steamos at log in to choose from, its a seperate desktop environment that is based on the game mode of steamdeck, so far this is the best os in existence, it is also not immutable like steam os so it is actually meant for daily use, rolling release, newest everything every day lol, included update manager and install manager, this is why i want to roll all this into one neat tidy little package so i dont have to explain all this, i can just say, use this distro because i have over 2k worth of hardware and it performs better than windows ever could[/quote]Oibaf ppa contains in development MESA, Kisak ppa is for the latest stable MESA drivers. I have been on Kubuntu as long as the distribution exists. I use the regular release. So i get two complete updates each year. In my opinion this is a good compromise regarding up to date packages and stability. I add the kisak ppa, the kubuntu backports ppa and flatpaksupport to it and i am done.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: ripper81358

Quoting: lejimsterIs ray tracing on Linux comparable to Windows these days?
I just bought a 7900 xtx and plan to have a tinker when I install it.

The next MESA release 23.2.0 will come with lots of raytracing improvements for MESA RADV. However performance will still be an issue when compared to the windowsdriver. The forthcoming MESA releases will adress these problem.
However with an RX 7900 xtx you should be able to get decent performance when you use FSR.

And that the issue with slower release distros that don't run cutting edge MESA. You end up having to add 3rd party repositories and kernals and it's not the most friendly end user experience. Ironically it's the most friendly end user experience distros that fall foul of this.

Well newer kernels are only needed when your GPU is not supported by the default kernel. On Ubuntubased distributions you just need to add the kisak mesa fresh ppa. This will keep MESA on the latest stable version. Doing the same with nvidias driver is clearly more inconvinient.

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Quoting: lejimsterIs ray tracing on Linux comparable to Windows these days?
I just bought a 7900 xtx and plan to have a tinker when I install it.

The next MESA release 23.2.0 will come with lots of raytracing improvements for MESA RADV. However performance will still be an issue when compared to the windowsdriver. The forthcoming MESA releases will adress these problem.
However with an RX 7900 xtx you should be able to get decent performance when you use FSR.

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: Linuxerhoww do i launch or install this... downloaded https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.0.tar.gz [External Link] and extracted an bunch of files apeared but none of them brings an install program or launch when doubble clicking .... like the earlier poster said URG :shock:

edit: i realize to make the quickinstall file executable from menus an then launch but:

/home/tuxer/Downloads/ckb-next-0.6.0/quickinstall: line 51: cmake: command not found
An error occurred,
press enter to exit.

so this software doesn't work or am i just dumb as shoes!?

You need to learn/understand some basic things about all of this, and after it won't be difficult as it seems. :wink:
But for now, the easiest way for you, as you're on Ubuntu, is to install it via PPA really, how to here:
https://launchpad.net/~tatokis/+archive/ubuntu/ckb-next [External Link]

but installing an app is basics? usually i just click on store to install or download and click to install. i asked from a friend tho. he said never add a ppa their dangerous and wait for a snap package :huh: well ok i'll wait. i'm not lookin for a degree in computer science :grin: i know these thigns are easy for all of you but not me as you can proly tell too

i can wait this is not dat important

I am using some ppa's and i never had problems with them. Not every package is available in the ubunturepos. And for some packages i prefer to stay more up to date. I use the kubuntu backports ppa and the kisak mesa fresh ppa on four Kubuntu systems. It needs just one command to add them to the system. PPA's will stay enabled on your system and the packages are updated with the other packages on your system until you upgrade to a new Ubunturelease. After upgrading your system to a new Ubuntuversion you must reenable the ppa's thats all. I doubt that there will be a Snap available for this software anytime soon. Snaps and Flatpaks are sandboxed apps running isolated from the system they are installed on. They are fine for many regular desktopapps, but tools like ckb need access to "lowlevel parts" of your system to work. It might be "impossible" to package this as a snap or flatpak. So if no one decides to package ckb for the official ubunturepos as a native deb package you need to go with the ppa to have this tool available on your system.

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Quoting: tuxisagamer

Quoting: Linuxer

Quoting: Calinou

Quoting: Linuxerhoww do i launch or install this... downloaded https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.0.tar.gz [External Link] and extracted an bunch of files apeared but none of them brings an install program or launch when doubble clicking .... like the earlier poster said URG :shock:

edit: i realize to make the quickinstall file executable from menus an then launch but:

/home/tuxer/Downloads/ckb-next-0.6.0/quickinstall: line 51: cmake: command not found
An error occurred,
press enter to exit.

so this software doesn't work or am i just dumb as shoes!?

This is a source tarball, so you need to compile it from source.

Some distributions or third-party repositories offer prebuilt packages you can use instead, but these may be outdated: https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/wiki/Linux-Installation [External Link]

ok strange indeed. but why exactly is there this file 'quickinstall' then though? :huh:

That is a script to do the compiling and installation for you. It's failing on required compiling tools being missing. Installation instructions can be found here: https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/wiki/Linux-Installation [External Link]

There are packages for several distributions. Compiling software yourself is not the best way to install or update software. Just use the packages for your distribution. You can find the list here: https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/wiki/Linux-Installation [External Link]

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Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: ArehandoroI have an RX 5700 (Not sure if XT), that means it does not have Ray Tracing cores, right? Would I lose a lot of performance if I were to enable it on a game? I mainly want to play Cyberpunk with it.

if games with RT support get too heavy on your machine, you'll still be able to toggle RT off via in-game settings

and most likely the driver will get a flag to force-disable RT too, since it's such a resource hog, in case a game doesn't let you tweak it the nice way

you should test it and see what happens

Since the RX 5000 series has no hardware support for raytracing and therefore no support for the needed Vulkan extensions raytracing will most likely be disabled on systems without compatible hardware. Cyberpunk is a very demanding game even with raytracing disabled. It is also one of the games that makes heavy use of raytracing once it is enabled. You are lucky if you can get the game running at good quality and performance without raytracing.

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