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Correcting the bad headline: The funds were not sold on Steam. They were earned from game sales on Steam.

What’s a rage room?

For anyone else reading this who plans to use Debian Stable for gaming, you really should enable Stable Backports. This gives you the option of newer drivers, kernel, etc. (you pick what you need individually) without having to give up the low-maintenance stability of the base system.

All the major desktop distros play games about as well as one another, assuming you set them up correctly.

Choose a distro based on other criteria, like the release cadence and admin tools that you find most comfortable. If you don’t have any particular needs or preferences, I guess you could save 10 minutes by choosing a distro that installs Nvidia drivers by default, but it’s not going to run games appreciably better than the others.

I don’t care for dating simulators, but HuniePop redeems itself by being a surprisingly good match-three game.

Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.

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Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.

It also claimed these websites had seen cumulative downloads of 3.2m in just three months this year - from 28th February and 28th May - resulting “in an estimated loss of $170m”.

In other words:

• They assumed that every download was by someone who would otherwise have paid over 53 USD for it, which by itself is an absurd delusion.
• They described imaginary money that they never had in the first place as “losses”, which is a plain lie. You can’t lose something that you never had.

Given that both these blatant falsehoods match the propaganda that big media parasite corporations started pushing a few decades ago, it seems pretty clear who the taxpayer-funded FBI is working for.

Did what again?

Let’s also remember that average GPU price tripled from 2019 to 2021, and still hasn’t returned, even adjusting for inflation.

I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu.

For those reading along, this person is talking about the KDE Plasma desktop environment. The Kubuntu Linux distribution uses it by default, but you can also install and switch to it on just about any popular Linux distro, even if it’s not the default.

I use Plasma, too. It’s good, reasonably familiar, and respects the fact that people might want to tweak things to fit their needs.

Folks here might also find this article interesting:

DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface

On average a GPU cost $1,056 per unit in 2021, compared to it being a third of that price in 2019.

Sane prices still have not returned, even accounting for inflation.

1. Likely, yes. The mounting holes and rear connectors on any ATX motherboard should line up with the standoffs and slots on any ATX case. Just make sure the new board isn’t too large for the case. Plan ahead for the size of your new CPU cooler, too.
2. For the most part, yes. Pay attention to the new motherboard’s power connector and that of your old power supply. If they don’t match, you might want to get a more modern power supply (even if it’s a used one).
3. It depends on the prices you find. Bear in mind that if you go for a new motherboard, it doesn’t have to be the latest generation. A socket AM4 motherboard might make sense, since new CPUs are still being made for them, and they’re likely to be cheaper than latest-generation stuff.

The Ryzen 5 5500X3D’s Latin American exclusivity sets it apart from its higher-end counterparts, being the only Ryzen chip exclusive to that geographic area.

It’s important not to get caught up in the “constantly upgrade everything” hype, even though it gets the spotlight a lot more than solid midrange gaming gear. As far as I’m concerned, four years is nothing; a gaming system that can’t hold up for that long would have been a poor system even on day one.

Glad you’re still enjoying your Steam Deck. I would be surprised if you don’t get another four years out of it. :)

1. The GTX 1070 was in the upper tier of gaming GPUs when it was released, categorized as high-end on Wikipedia. Most people wouldn’t be able to justify the cost of its kind of performance until years later, even if the next thing didn’t happen…
2. About half that long ago, GPU prices tripled, and prices are still absurdly elevated today even adjusting for high inflation. This has significantly delayed a lot of peoples’ normal upgrade cycles, so your 9-year-old GPU is effectively more like a 4-year-old GPU with respect to affordable upgrade path.
3. Back when that card was new, running a first-person game at 60fps 1080p was mainstream and not particularly impressive. That level of performance is mediocre-to-weak today.

(And by the way, the other GPU they mention is only 5 years old.)

With all these things considered, I don’t view the quoted performance as anything special. It’s not particularly bad, but not particularly good either. Certainly not “very friendly”, or newsworthy.

That’s supposed to be very friendly? I think someone might be a bit out of touch.

I might have upvoted this post if it contained even a basic summary, rather than just a link to someone’s video.