Never had the opportunity to try an Intel GPU but from what I’ve looked they are good affordable low-end GPU for the value. However I don’t know how the Linux support is. Also the AMD RX 9600 XT is a mid-range so not the same competition. I would say that if you can afford it you should upgrade to this one.

Never had any issue with my old RX 5700 XT beside hot temperature and so noise, I have mitigated it with changing thermal paste and undervolting it. 0 issue with my RX 6600, so for my RX 7800 XT either

By default PRISM doesn’t allow you to add offline account without login a MS account that own the Java Edition. But you can edit a file in order to bypass this restriction. The Ely fork of PRISM doesn’t have that restriction.

https://rentry.co/prism4free

Or https://github.com/ElyPrismLauncher/ElyPrismLauncher

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Exactly, I started using it for that game!

I am using r2modman most of the time and it works well for the modded games I play on my machine. I uses Thunderstore so it might not have the biggest library of mods for all your titles but it’s worth mentioning imo.

Depending on the game but on my machine I have Sudachi and Kenji-NX depending on the games I play :

https://alternativeto.net/lists/29770/the-ultimate-emulator-list/

Eden (Citron fork) seems great such as Torzu

I always had Endeavor on my radar if I want/need to use Arch more extensively, it really looks like a great distro to use based on cutting-edge arch.

ZorinOS maybe ?

Bazzite is great for gaming !

Nobara too.

If you don’t mind seperated tools that do well in their own :

• Zulip for chat
• Jitsi for video meeting
• And whatever calendar you want for the calendar

As a SteamDeck owner I must say it doesn’t feel heavy at all and the weight is really well balanced, but yes it’s quite bulky compared to a Nintendo Switch or Switch Lite for exemple.

I wonder why they choose to go with Manjaro and not Arch directly.

Maybed I would choose another distro such as Nobara Steam-HTPC as it has NVidia ISO. I never tried it myself as I’ve ditched NVidia.

Yes you can setup steam to boot up in Big Picture mode but this isn’t equal to gamescope used by bazzite, steamos or chimeraos that adds some tweaks and perks for gaming improving a console-like experience.

You can setup EmuDeck on bazzite using Desktop mode and once your controller and emulator settings are setup having your ROM library synched to your steam non-steam library and booting them from gaming-mode. So yes for setting up the emulator desktop-mode is the way to do but there is no reason to not using the HTPC ISO to get a console experience for playing RPCS3 games.

I would trade that GeForce GTX 1660 for a Radeon RX 6600 (these are cheap too) because NVidia doesn’t work well with gamescope (SteamOS/Bazzite big picture console mode).

In my opinion OS is software, many people are working on it and I don’t think their work is worth 0$ (maybe Windows being the exception lol).

I disagree with you however I find it attrocious than when you upgrade (exemple from ZorinOS 16 to 17) if you own a Pro licence you have to buy a new licence (with a discount) and can’t “downgrade” to non-Pro (except from reinstalling it from scratch). I think the way the Pro is sold shouldn’t put upgrade behind a paywall.

Selling a (bloated) Pro version to bring cash isn’t necesseraly cancer it really depend on what you get and how you’re treated. And with ZorinOS I was somewhat disapointed…

ZorinOS or the recent AnduinOS can be very Windows like with modernish windows sex appeal as you call it.

Edit: If a gamer you could add Nobara with its own theme or bazzite with KDE.

What did you tweaked to achieve that ? I only had crashs with joycons when I tried to use two of them as seperate controllers but still don’t know why.