I see what you are trying to say, it doesn’t matter too much which distro you pick. But that website sent me to a BSD distro, which which will have a hard time with Proton. And if OP has an Nvidia GPU they’ll need recent drivers. So not any distro will do, but any mainstream distro will do.

86c is fine. Especially with laptops the bios will not spin up your fan much when it doesn’t need to. You could check if there are other fan profiles in bios or override them with fan control software.

6700XT here. Never had any issues. Been using this card for like 2 years on Fedora. Can’t comment on the video encoder though.

It’s probably not the best but I have it set up and it does what I need it to do 🤷 Fedora KDE

Not what I’d call easy. But still neat

Sir I think you have stumbled into the wrong sublemmy

I guess we should also force everyone to use wheelchairs because they are great for paraplegics.

Even “heavy” linux distros are easy to run for a pc capable of running and streaming modern games. Lightweight distros are mostly relevant for older or underpowered hardware.

Have you checked out https://openrazer.github.io/#devices

I agree. My previous phone was a OnePlus 7 Pro, the last one with a pop-up camera. I only ever used that camera as a party trick, didn’t take a single real photo with it. The only reason I switched to Motorola edge 50 is because the OnePlus hadn’t gotten security updates in 2 years and it’s second battery was also starting to degrade. I’d use an aftermarket ROM but my banking app probably won’t like that. The Motorola is fine I guess. The punch hole doesn’t often get in the way. But it’ll never be quite as cool as the 7 pro…

I think a UPS is overkill unless you also have brown-outs to cover for. A surge protector should be enough

The easy path to getting storefronts like EA working is through Lutris. It does all the setup for you through guided wizards. I can’t help much with deciding a distro tho, I’ve been using Fedora for years and that works well enough but is not exactly gaming focussed.

I agree but in this case an unlocked bootloader is unlikely to help. These niche devices rarely get good roms

There are benchmarks on the huggingface page. The larger model is close to GPT4o performance. Which makes this worse than deepseek-r1. But it is a smaller model and not a reasoning model (doesn’t use up extra tokens to “think”). So still very impressive and important for open source.

If I understand correctly, very little. Since proton already implemeted esync, which was a workaround for this.

For games that the deck struggles to run?

The size of the updates and also the size of the game itself might be due to how it is packaged. You want data that belongs together and is accessed together to be stored together. For example, the game might have one file per level that is loaded and kept in memory when you enter that level. You might even store the same asset multiple times if that means it’s easier to access sequentially. This optimization is less necessary in the are of ssds but you don’t want your game to be completely unplayable on people that still run it from a hard drive.

You want us to yell out our credit card details over the phone like the good old days?

HardwareUnboxed did a with/without ray tracing comparison. TL;DR in most games it’s not worth the performance hit. Don’t bother with ray tracing for now, especially on low or mid-range hardware. https://youtu.be/DBNH0NyN8K8

Need? No. But hardware acceleration makes things faster and more efficient.