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I had a TRS-80 that I played with for a while that was like that. It was a bit less powerful than this one though. You needed to read in software with a cassette; it took forever, but you could always play music with that cassette drive too, so that was nice. I saw it... I want it... but too many Pis at home already

Thanks for the detailed answer! I am currently using KDE plasma with X11. I tried using the Wayland version but had problems and did not have the patience to get it working, but that is good to know actually. I will give Sway a try, I have been meaning to play with window managers. Any difference in the effectiveness for emulated games with Wine or Proton, Lutris, etc? I am definitely not a competitive gamer and usually play older, not AAA games, but it is a consideration still.

Hi everyone, A bit of backgroun: I built my computer about a year ago, but delayed buying a new GPU, in anticipation of the next generation - the one coming out now. I have two GPUs currently; I have been using one for a hardware passthrough to a windows VM, though I have not been using it much recently. Since my current main GPU is a Asus Strix GTX 960, I know that either vendor's new cards would be a significant upgrade, but I know that sometimes one brand works better than the other. Note that my other GPU is a XFX Radeon HD 7870, which is comparable to the GTX 960, but does not work nearly as well in my current system for some reason. I have been seeing tearing on my GTX 960 that's been kind of on and off with the driver versions (I know I can revert, but it's too much of a hassle for a relatively minor problem), but the Radeon HD 7870 runs super hot and for some reason requires manual fan control or just overheats and causes the machine to reboot. I am currently leaning towards the new AMD cards, but will wait for review, and am even considering upgrading from my Ryzen 5 3600 to a 5000 series CPU on my x570 board since it will (presumably) be the last set of AM4 CPUs. I have never had a fully cutting edge computer, and am considering upgrading to it soonish, then keep using that for the next 8-10 years (my last cpu was a i5-2500k). I wanted to get people's experiences on RDNA 1 cards and RTX 2000 (or 3000) under linux systems. btw I use Arch.