Raytracing works pretty well for a decent amount of games at least on the Nvidia side. They just enabled RT by default for AMD GPUs but their RT is generally slower than Nvidia’s.

Not sure. Could have sworn there was a prototype Razor tablet that never came to market which had removable side controllers as well.

My issue with a hybrid device like that though is the lack of power compared to standard consoles. I really want a decently specced Steam Machine that’s just a really good 1080p - 1440p gaming machine

More powerful Deck, or heck, even a more powerful official Steam Machine that doesn’t break the bank?

She’s a genius. After seeing what she did for the M1 driver, I am sure we’re going to be in for a treat with whatever she’s working on next.

Yeah RT performance was definitely a blocker for me when considering AMD this generation, along with DLSS and Blender acceleration support. Hopefully they improve on those fronts with their new cards.

Some people are more sensitive to input latency and frame stutter than others. Personally I think they’re very important things to optimize for and make a big difference for how games feel and play on a platform.

The issue is that before you can voice your agreement or disagreement without publicly announcing it. Now it feels like you’re forced to take a stand.

I get that it’s a trivial thing when talking about benign topics like video games, but you might not want to publicly declare a position when talking about politics, human rights, sexuality, etc.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Voting secrecy is very important. There’s a reason why your government ballot isn’t posted on some public bulletin board in the town square for everyone to see. I see no reason why it should be any different for online community voting.

For me personally, I am somewhat okay with Lemmy’s implementation because it isn’t so public for the average user and is understandable given the requirements of federation (at least until we figure out a way to anonymize vote counts in aggregate), but kbin’s implementation just crosses the line IMHO.

Honestly, I am not down for this at all. It’s one thing to be able to get that info by hosting your own instance and another thing to be publicly called out like that. From a privacy perspective, I just don’t need the average joe seeing what I’ve been upvoting and downvoting.

Did you try the demo? It’s friggin fantastic. The combat is very challenging but in an extremely fun way.

I am loving the fact that all these gaming related issues are starting to get hammered out by everyone working on Wayland. This is the last hurdle for me before I finally switch from X11.

It’s working out of the box for me via Steam. I would run steam in the terminal and then launch the game to see what pops up in the error logs. It might just be that you don’t have proper Vulkan drivers installed or something.

I am impatient for all this stuff as well, but I guess it is important to get this stuff right as Wayland will probably be the basis of the Linux graphics stack for the next two decades.

People who say “I have nothing to hide” are just naive about what people can do with seemingly banal personal info.

Heck, it just takes one watch of any episode of Black Mirror to completely understand the consequences…

I’d say give a few Arch-based distros a try, or just straight up Arch if you’re feeling adventurous. Arch distros are just slim and speedy, which could be good for your old laptop. The new official archinstall tool makes it relatively easy compared to installing Arch the manual way, but if you’re looking for more ease of use EndeavourOS is a great option.

Fears are relatively unfounded. 1660 Ti is still a relatively new card, so you don’t even have to worry about having to use legacy drivers. Just install the nvidia driver package from your distro and you should be good to go.

I’ve been running my 3090 and it’s been working well for most games.