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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn't precisely say they're starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Its just gonna be a question of how unsecure Win10 gets , and how fast.

My pc is from 2019, although I've upgraded the hardware several times. But I've basically reached a ceiling of practicality, its no longer practical to upgrade anything. Im on an outdated chipset (AM4) and jumping from a 3080 to a 4080 isn't really going to fix the problem of games just being unoptimized. It makes more sense to build a new PC than it does to just change OS on this.

but right now, it just doesnt make sense to build a new PC either.. I dont lift a finger on anything unless im going to be able to see at minimum 20% performance increase, I just dont see that without emptying my savings account...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

It makes more sense to build a new PC than it does to just change OS on this.

I haven't made comparisons with gaming, tho I know there is somewhat, but there's been a big performance boost on desktop and regular applications running Bazzite over Win10.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Im on an outdated chipset (AM4)

Bruh, why do you have to say that? 😂. I just built my PC a couple of months ago and I bought an AM4 and I thought I had some kickass specs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Realistically the AM4 is still more than enough for now. but its technically end of life. the AM5 isn't worth the jump until theres no other option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Oh yeah, it is doing all I want it to do. Plus, on Linux I've learnt that having a bit older hardware is always better since the software for it is mature and works no problem in most cases. Absolutely zero complaints for what I paid for it. $500 for a whole PC is unbeatable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No worries about that, it was a bad wording. The company has stopped producing it, and that's it. Your cpu is fine, compatible with current software, and can serve you well for still a long time.

Corporations were so successful in promoting consumerism, that they already messed with us on a psychological level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh it's totally fine, my friend. I just thought it was very funny. No hard feelings towards the commenter at all. I even actually laughed out loud. I'm that guy who never buys a brand new car, always used and has to be a great deal. Shit works, why spend the extra money? When you are bron and raised in a poor 3rd world country, you learn to be very careful with your money when you have it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

When you are bron and raised in a poor 3rd world country, you learn to be very careful with your money when you have it.

Oh, I totally feel you there. Nice to see a fellow third worlder around!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

They did still release a few ones recently for them. But am5 is the main one right now. It's not incredibly old, just no new ones will probably be produced. (I think the last am4 were a surprise already) Just for curiosity, why did you go with am4?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

The honest answer(s), money and I didn't know any better, especially in the AMD side. I hadn't learnt their numbering schemes and I saw Ryzen 7 and thought "hell yeah", but it turned out it's a 5700G and the newest is the 7000 series. lol. Still powerful as hell. I bought the whole thing from microcenter and I had the salesperson pick the parts for me. I restricted him to $500 and that's all we were able to get with that money. I have no issues with it whatsoever. I can play all of my games on 4k mid to low settings. Not much fps, but I'm a guy who's ok with a game if it runs at 30 fps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

might have been a deal. some retailers are dumb and think lower number means worse, so discount justified. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

100% nailed it. I bought all parts for $500. Works great. The processor is a Ryzen 7 5700G and it comes with an iGPU, so I didn't get a dGPU at the time, a friend of mine had an RX 580 laying around and gave it to me. Gamed on it for about a year or less, worked fine. Later on, I got an RX 6600 from Facebook for $100.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They are end of life now and have ceased production, but if you can manage to find a 5800X3D , that CPU is the definition of sleeper. I had a 5700X I think it was, and the performance boost was f***ing unreal, I expected meagre gains, I saw 20 to 50% performance increase on many games. if you're into that kind of thing. if you see one for sale, seriously think about grabbing it.

its the whole reason aside from the OS issue, Im not even remotely worried about the next few years, it can compete with the high end stuff of the AM5 generation still. unreal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Too late now, as I've already bought and have been using the R7 5700G for a long while now. This one is great, too. It boosts to 4.7 GHz. It has its own iGPU, 8 cores, 16 threads. It burns through everything I throw at it. Been very happy with it honestly. And the cherry on top was the price. I got it for $135. I'll be keeping it for a long while. I don't see any reason to spend more money. I literally have no issues with my system. Everything I do works no problem. All of the games I play work flawlessly (I never play multiplayer online stuff), why spend the extra money, you know?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Not a good advice. A friend of mine is still on win7 and it still works and got security updates time to time. But some programs actually stopped working or only older lts versions remain workings. Win10 is probably still ok for a year or two.