Notebookcheck benchmarked the RX 6800 at 350 FPS in 1080p low and 107 FPS in 1440p epic (https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Finals-review-Laptop-and-desktop-benchmarks.785549.0.html). Based on that, I'd expect better performance at 1440p low. This might be an issue with your hardware / configuration or with the driver/Linux. Are you getting the expected performance in other games?
I also second checking GPU utilization and temps with Mangohud.
- UMU as Default on Linux/Steam Deck: Unified Launcher (UMU) is now standard for Proton games. (by @arielj)
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- Proton-GE as Default: Switched from Wine-GE for better compatibility. (by @arielj)
Nice, hopefully that should further improve game compatibility outside of Steam :)
Yes, the classic AMD strategy to mess up launch-day reviews...
It sounds like this will be your fist time running Linux. In that case I would recommend against using CachyOS or Arch. Those distros are meant for experienced users that are willing to solve problems on their. In the words of the Arch wiki:
Whereas many GNU/Linux distributions attempt to be more user-friendly, Arch Linux has always been, and shall always remain user-centric. The distribution is intended to fill the needs of those contributing to it, rather than trying to appeal to as many users as possible. It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems.
In general, you can have a good gaming experience on almost any distro. The main limitation is probably running brand-new hardware, which can be a bit difficult on some of the slower distros (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Mint, ...). There are only very minor performance differences between distros.
If you're a new user that wants to use a fast-moving distro with many options for customization, I'd recommend Fedora (e.g. Fedora KDE).
I think it is a disaster and that the lack of long-term API/ABI stability (outside of the kernel) is one of the biggest things holding commercial software on Linux back. It's much less of an issue for FOSS software, which can easily be recompiled or adapted. However, a lot of people (and companies) want to run proprietary software (e.g. games) on Linux.
This type of breakage causes problems for both developers and users. If you develop software for Linux you need to continously maintain it in order to ensure that it keeps working. And as a user it can mean that software which was working perfectly suddenly no longer works after an upgrade. For example, you may just no longer be able to play any of your older Linux games. If they were built for Windows you can still run them after 20 years, and they probably even work on Linux too.
Forgejo became a hard fork about a year ago: https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/ And it seems that migration from Gitea is only possible up to Gitea version 1.22: https://forgejo.org/2024-12-gitea-compatibility/
The article mentions that it works fine on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, so it shouldn't be an issue unless you're running something older than that.
What a terrible article. The margins for board partners is small, but Nvidias margin is huge.
Currently, my favorite ways of running non-Steam games are the Heroic Games Launcher and Bottles. Heroic is especially nice if you have games from GOG or EGS. However, looking at ProtonDB, it seems that both DCS and Flight Sim 2024 don't work too well on Linux. Overall it sounds like it might be challenging for you to switch to Linux, but you can always give it a try and see how much works.
Talking about the "yield" of a process doesn't make any sense. Yield is a metric for a specific chip fabricated on a given process. This depends heavily on the size of the chip and mitigation techniques.
The "correct" metric to compare processes is defect density (in defects per square cm). Intel claims that their defect density is below 0.4 defects/cm²: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-says-defect-density-at-18a-is-healthy-potential-clients-are-lining-up. This would be relatively high but not much worse than what TSMC has seen for their recent nodes: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/intel-18a-process-node-clocks-an-abysmal-10-yield-report.329513/page-2#post-5387835).
Unfotunately, I can help you with that. The machine is not running any VMs.
Yeah, I also find it very annoying. I guess Youtube just can't imagine that people exist who speak more than one language...
Having the option of automatic translations is fine but at least let me (globallly) disable it!
I think, currently, creators can disable it, so you can ask them to do that.