Giganthrax

I play CSGO on a 1440p 170hz panel at home. I also occasionally play it on an old 60hz monitor at my parents' house. Trust me, it's significantly easier to react on time with a higher refresh rate. I consistently do a lot better on the 170hz panel, even though the game runs well on both computers.

WIth Ryzen integrated graphics being as good as they are these days, I really have no idea why someone would pay for a GPU like this. Maybe if their old GTX 9xx card died and they really don't want to replace anything except the GPU?

These new CPUs are great news for businesses and professionals who can do heavy-duty rendering and similar tasks. However, I can't see it making a meaningful difference in gaming. Since Playstation 5 & the new Xbox use the rough equivalent of a Ryzen 3700, and game streaming is becoming an increasingly attractive option (especially on medium-to-low powered machines), it's highly unlikely that we'll see games that are designed to take advantage of the new super-duper 16 core AM5 CPUs. Why would they? Current AAA games aren't even pushing the limits of the new consoles. So yeah, this is amazing tech, but as gaming goes, only enthusiasts with a lot of money to spend will ever even consider paying so much for incrimental upgrades.

Apple truly is the company of all time.

If you're not gonna use it and someone is willing to give you lots of money for it, then yes, sell it. You'd be a fool not to. You're not doing anyone any favors by leaving a steamdeck in a drawer to collect dust.

ZorinOS Core is my favorite so far. Got it on my work laptop and it has served me really well so far. I also used Linux Mint MATE for over a year now and that's a pretty good distro as well, if a little rough around the edges.

If all goes well, in a few years we'll have fully open source drivers for nvidia GPUs, which should offer better performance for gaming on Linux desktops while also alleviating many of the problems users have with the proprietary drivers.

Great news. Hopefully, in a couple of years we'll have a reliable open source driver for regular desktop use. Combined with further advancements in Proton, Linux gaming may become easier than ever. One can hope.

The year of the Linux is never really going to happen. Even if Windows somehow completely collapses and the majority of people switch to Linux, it's going to be a very slow and gradual change that will take at least 5-10 years. That being said, I'm happy to see some major government-backed resources going into Linux development. Hopefully, the extra development from Chinese programmers will contribute positively to Linux as a whole. (obviously, whatever distro the Chinese government makes isn't going to be something people outside China will use)

From what I can tell, the metaverse is basically VR chat, at best. It isn't going to change anything.

This will never take off because gaming laptops are just way more cost-effective and convenient overall + the panel is actually protected by the laptop's cover while in transit. Still, it's a very cool concept for a more compact PC. It may appeal to enthusiasts who have very limited desk space, but want high-end performance that they can't get from one of those mini-computers intel and apple make.

Use a shorter HDMI cable to connect a laptop to the TV, then stream to the Laptop via in-built Discord or Steam streaming?

You can just use a phone and either a clip that enables you to attach your phone to a joypad (costs like $3 on ebay) or one of those controllers that are made to be attached onto a phone. You can get these cheaply as well. Then just play your games via Geforce Now or use retroarch if you want to play old games.

I like to buy stuff that's excessively powerful at the moment, but not actually top-of-the-line. This gives me superb performance in games (everything on high/ultra, stable 60+ fps) for many years, because it usually takes a long time for new games to catch up to the hardware, especially if the current console gen is already a couple years old when you make your purchase. Case in point, I'm still rocking a GTX1070 that I bought about 6 years ago. For most of that time, I've been playing almost every game on ultra settings without any dips below 60. Today, it still runs AAA games on 60+ fps on medium/high settings on 1080p. It has finally started to fall behind last year when I upgraded to a 1440p 170hz monitor, but even then it manages to deliver a pretty good experience in games I care about (for example, 80-120fps on medium-high settings in Dirt Rally 2). When I finally replace it in a couple of years, it's going to become a part of my backup computer, where it will keep going strong for years to come. I'd say that's as future-proof as it gets. When I do decide to upgrade, I will definitely pay a premium for an RTX 5070 or something like that that will likely be overpowered in contemporary games, but will provide excellent value for the next 6-7 years or more.

As noted already, Catfish does this job really well. Also, some file explorer programs have in-built searches that are really good. For instance, the one that comes with ZorinOS has a search bar on top that works really well.

I heard that there are, like, some improvements for multiple monitor setups, HDR screens, and whatnot. There was some other stuff but it's so irrelevant to me that I forgot what it is.

While this change is something that won't affect 99.99% of the userbase, I'm still mildly concerned that they're actually wasting development time on something so insignificant. Don't they have anything better to do? It's been ages since Win11 was announced and now it's been live for some time, and I'm still yet to hear about any meaningful improvements it has made to Win10. It seems like the disadvantages far outweight what few advantages there are.

Horrid, but not unexpected from a console sports game. On the bright side, if EA could be shamed by player backlash to rework Battlefront 2 into a decent game, maybe there's hope for Gran Turismo. That being said, before that happens we'll probably see more crap like this coming to future racing games, what with Dirt Rally 3 being turned into frickin EA SPORTS RALLY.

I recently built a system for a friend with a GTX 960. It didn't deliver overly stable framerates in AAA games, but it was still very much playable. I also find game streaming to be a really good option for singleplayer, to the point where it's a completely valid way to play modern games on my 12 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop. My GTX 1070 is probably way too modern for this list, but it's still going very strong after like 6 years now. 100+ fps in Dirt Rally 2.0 on 1440p, and never dips below 60 frames on medium-high settings on 1080p on all newer games.

The ram on a gpu is vram. That's different. I'd say a gpu today should have at least 8 gigs of vram. I mean 16gbs of regular ram. Preferably in 2 8gb sticks in dual channel.

16gb still more than enough.

The technical devs at FROM have always been incompetent. The technical options and optimization in their games has always sucked. Remember the extremely laggy swamp area in DS1 that was laggy even on the consoles it was designed for, and that the same bad performance for DS1 on PC was fixed within a couple games of the game coming out by a modder? Or the severely degraded graphics of DS2 before it came out because they simply didn't know how to make the advertised graphics work with a playable framerate? Or the fact that Bloodborne can't even meet its 30fps in some areas? Also, their peer to peer netcode is the worst I've ever seen. It's so bad that I can easily play DS3 PvP via remote play and feel absolutely no lag difference since everyone is already playing with like 500ms, lol. Compared to other games that use peer to peer connection such as Mortal Kombat 11, it's unbelievable how bad the Soulsborne netcode is. At this point, it's just a part of the whole Soulsborne experience. xD

Funnily enough, Respawn has already done a FROM Software knockoff game. Jedi Fallen Order is very much Sekiro lite, with the exact same parry system, Souls-style bonfires, and other elements straight out of Sekiro. They just made it a lot easier of course and basically neutralized the learning curve by adding force powers. Far Cry is no longer really playable for me, starting with the post-apocalyptic expansion. They nerfed the difficulty so much that it feels like playing a game for children. I don't understand why they had to remove actual hard difficulty from the game, lol. When playing with m+kb, it literally takes a minute or two to conquer an entire camp, it's so piss easy.

I watch Youtube through brave browser. It has an option to keep playback on even with screen off. It also has an adblock. Not as smooth as watching from a dedicated app, but it does the job. Give it a try.

+1 I use Zorin Core on my work laptop and it's really sleek, stable, and user-friendly. No real complaints here. I also used plenty of Linux Mint Mate, and I'm quite happy with it. I wouldnt use any Linux Distro if your priority is gaming however.