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Sometimes the high power draw is caused by running the VRAM full-speed. If that's the case, it can certainly be addressed by a driver update. The only thing is, AMD has fixed power draw many times before only to regress it a few driver releases down the road. Nvidia isn't safe from this either...

I'm on Nvidia and I never install the drivers myself. Always from a repo (be that official Arch, Ubuntu PPA or whatever). But the bigger problem is AMD: their drivers almost always need bleeding edge Mesa and outside rolling distros, nobody provides that from official repos.

Here's the thing, trying a Linus distro is basically free: they all offer bootable ISOs that you put on a USB stick and try without changing anything on your system. But yes, Ubuntu/Mint are more suited for people that just want things to work (nothing wrong with that, it just happens I'm in the...

Probably not the best choice if you care about gaming. Gaming often requires new packages for a number of things. Mint, being Ubuntu-based is more about stability and that means older, tested packages. If you want up-to-date, I would suggest OpenSuse Tumbleweed or some Arch derivative that comes...

Yes, that's the thing: no matter how limited these things are, they still sting when they happen to you. Me? They will pry wired ethernet from my cold, dead hands.

Go figure, I have one myself. And running Windows software better than Windows is nothing new. OS/2 used to do that around the time Linux was born. But yes, a different OS is just that: different. It will never be a 100% exact replacement. It will have pluses and minuses.

It's not as bad as it seems, but there is a reason the term "AMD FineWine™" was coined. AMD usually takes longer to extract peak performance from their GPUs. Also, if you want to use AMD on Linux while using compute and HDMI audio, that's always a lot of fun. But the cards themselves and...

That's the whole point of Wine, to run Windows executables ;) It doesn't get everything right 100%, but it was doing a good job years ago when I tried it last. I imagine it got better since. And because of SteamOS, it got numerous enhancements around handling games.

I don't think that's a fair assessment. Linux on desktop is really good. I can watch videos, stream music, edit photos... no problem. And while there are some incompatibilities wrt peripherals, they are rarely the fault of Linux. More often than not, manufacturers deviate from some specs, mess...

Just be careful and test for stability when you do that. Base voltage is there for a reason. It's just that motherboard tend to feed more voltage to the CPU so that it will be stable at higher frequencies and make the motherboard look ahead of the curve in benchmarks. That overvoltage you can...

The moment I realized I don't really have time to game anymore was the moment I switched to Linux as my main driver. So many distros out there, there must be somethign that will fit your needs. If you use KDE, you can make that resemble anything, including the Mac look and feel. And while...

It's pretty impressive for a solo developer to develop a strategy game of that scale. And layer DLSS on top.

Hear, hear. It was such a huge improvement when mobos started to include a "connector" so you wouldn't have to keep trying to find the right pin...

I'm not sure what would a thumb drive "best", they feel the same to me.

Yeah, it's a clip-in connector, but it's not like you can run around it making sure it's fastened. Many times the clip is facing the PSU or some VRM heatsink, with barely any clearance. Been there, done that.