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Cake day: Jun 12, 2023

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I was tempted by Intel as a newcomer and having sane pricing. In the end and won because I tried my system ssd on a friends gaming PC and it worked perfectly. Otherwise …



props to AMD
I have (had?) A win10 machine for gaming with a nvidia 1080 for the past ten years since gaming wasn't performant enough for me on Linux. Nouveau wasn't cutting it fps wise and the nvidia drivers were a nightmare if you dared to alt-tab or expected more than 20fps. I bought a mid tier (radeon7600xt) from AMD and it was (I am not kidding) plug and play. And I don't mean the Microsoft blue screen presentation plugnplay. Natively I got performant 3d fps (glxgears must be celebrating its 100th birthdaynow) and thanks to valves wine fork it was even easier to get more demanding games up and running. Before icouldn't even run portal. Thank you AMD for doing something right where nvidia is obviously screwing up.
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But still a company with employees and such. Just not allowed to make a profit over a fiscal year. Assuming it means the same in the us.