Atelier Yumia was already on my wishlist before, but now with a Reina outfit? That’s an instant get.

Do you have any sources for those bricked consoles you’ve heard of?
I’ve heard of a recent update to their ToS, where people have mentioned the possibility of Nintendo bricking consoles, but haven’t actually seen any examples.

It’s exaggerated alright, but Nintendo first-party titles very rarely go on sale and when they do, savings are lower than other manufacturers’ first-party titles.

As an example, BotW is at around 35% discount a couple times a year on average (although it wasn’t on sale at all for around two years, 2020-22).
In comparison, on Sony’s side, Demon’s Souls is at around 55% discount these days when it’s on sale every couple months or so. And yes, that’s technically a second-party title, but I feel it’s more relevant to compare launch games in this instance.
Even Sony is becoming greedy with its own published games not getting huge sales like they used to.

I’m not sure how ProtonUp works with native games, installed outside of Steam or Heroic for instance, but it certainly doesn’t allow for per-game Proton version changes with Steam games.
EDIT: I was wrong, there’s a separate list I wasn’t aware of where you can change per-game versions. You can do the same thing in ProtonPlus FWIW.

This is akin to ProtonUp, with more compat forks available to download within the GUI.

Oh, TIL - I’ll have to try that, thank you!

Setting a high refresh rate is somewhat of a given, but won’t negate anything which VRR helps with - screen tearing. If you’re always playing with VSync on and getting constant frame rates, that’s not an issue, but that’s also far from the usual experience.

Yes, I’ve been bothered by VRR flicker on my OLED monitor (LG 27GR95QE) since I started actively gaming on it with my Linux build a couple months ago, it was never an issue with consoles for me.
I’m on KDE FWIW, and the flicker is more pronounced during games with mouse cursor on screen afaict. I can’t compare to Windows.
I think VRR flicker is less of an issue when running games within a gamescope session, but it’s not ideal either.

Is it still actively maintained? It’s also not working on Wayland fwiw.

LACT works just fine with my RTX 3080.

Interesting!
I could only find limited info about the SoC’s TjMax / operating temperatures, although we could assume it’s somewhat similar to the actual Tegra X1, in which case:

• This datasheet lists a TjMax of 105°C (page 2) and several thresholds before that (page 17) at which the APU would downclock (or shut down), with no actual value unfortunately.
• Gamers Nexus talks about the above, with a supposed throttling threshold at 70°C - and possibly 90°C - where frequency drops by 6%.
• Digital Foundry made a video testing Switch overclocking years ago (apologies for the ResetEra link, but there’s a good summary there), where they had operating temperatures in the 60s (though I’m not sure that’s the junction temperature).

That being said, my (V1) Switch is modded so I could test that a bit more, and check operating temperatures and frequencies before/after a repaste.

You can refer to list of games with HDR support.
As far as HDR in native Linux games, recent changes won’t help, but you should be able to get that working with a couple env vars.

To be fair, Heroic already use their GitHub repo to track issues.
I agree with you that Discord shouldn’t even part of the equation to begin with, but it’s become so prevalent everywhere that I imagine it’s hard for devs to fully bypass.

I found this Proton issue specifically mentioning issues with Death Stranding: Director’s Cut.
FWIW, Death Stranding (non Director’s Cut) doesn’t support the DualSense either way AFAIK.

That sounds encouraging, thanks!
I’m not concerned about coil while, since I’d also be playing with headphones on, but that’s noted.
I read about recent developments wrt FSR4, it sounds like that’s potentially close to functional indeed.
RT performance is a downside, however AFAIK that’s par for the course with AMD on Linux?

I’m somewhat torn between getting a 9070 XT now, or getting a cheaper, used GPU while the experience and/or drivers get ironed out. My only real worry is GPU prices going up as a result of US tariffs, so I’m leaning towards 9070 XT rather than the alternative .

Thanks for your write-up!
About a month later, would you say the experience has gotten better? Did you encounter any issues?
I’m able to get a 9070 XT close to MSRP ($949 CAD + 12% tax), but I’ve seen conflicting reviews regarding current performance (or crashes) on Linux, so I’m not 100% sure this would be an ideal choice.

Rated playable even before any release date was announced, interesting.