I’ll have to disagree with the Zen option. I got frustrated when they started removing settings for features I was using a year or so ago, and the community is prickly. I went back to Firefox when they finally made vertical tabs available.

I guess I’ll have to look into Waterfox or Phoenix now if Mozilla is bent on fully integrating AI. I’m already considering Kagi for search since DuckDuckGo is following the AI wild goose.

Damn it, have my upvote.

It’s nice to see this case being brought.

I hope it ends up doing something for the insane hardware costs. If nothing else, I’d hope that the old production lines can be stood up by other companies if Hynix and Micron can’t be arsed to continue.

If you know of any cottage shops making superlative GPUs, please let the community know!

As for this discussion, I have had very few problems with my RX 7800XT. Compare this to the issues and performance Nvidia GPUs have on Linux wrt gaming and the official drivers, and it really makes me hope that the recent work on NVK will eventually lead to some relief for our GeForce peeps.

They get around the Windows KLAC as well, so it doesn’t make sense to me for dev houses to require it. Cheaters, almost by definition, find a way to circumvent blocks, and I don’t think that justifies my being required to install a rootkit on my system.

I guess it depends on what your use case might be. I have heard that Manjaro is decent for a desktop Arch experience, but I have yet to try it.

My use case recently was for a living-room PC that works like a console version of the Steam Deck. For that purpose, ChimeraOS works really well. It’s an Arch-based distro that uses the Steam Deck controller-first interface and so far is handling almost everything I’ve thrown at it. It even has a remote admin app where you can install games from GOG or Epic (although GOG support only installs the base game at the moment, no DLC or updates) or upload console ROMs for emulation.

I would say if you go this route, get a PS4/PS5 controller. The touch space is recognized as a mouse, which removes the need to attach a mouse for those moments when you need to get into the desktop (such as formatting a secondary drive for use in Steam).

That does seem odd. It doesn’t have to be a “console” distro like ChimeraOS, but maybe an Arch derivative like Manjaro would have been more appropriate. (I don’t know many gaming-focused distros tbh)

I’m gaming on a NUC 11 Extreme kit with a Sapphire Pulse Radeon 6700 XT running ChimeraOS.

Currently it is doing really well, though some games appear to not be using anti-aliasing and I’m not sure why. But aside from that I am super impressed with how well Proton and Lutris have come along!