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Steam has DRM for Steam games. You can add any other game to Steam and ask Steam to attach Proton to it.

Steam.

All games on Steam use Steams DRM, I would have thought.

I have the curved ultrawide monitor and it’s not something I’d recommend anyone buy.

The problems are numerous;

• The software is more Smart TV than monitor. There’s a bunch of connectivity I don’t want. (BT, WiFi, etc).
• Trying to manually select my PC from all the ‘channels’ is a 3-4 button press affair. For something that I do almost every work day when it should be automatic, it’s quite frustrating. It does auto-switch to Thunderbolt for my work laptop easily, though. But I can’t leave the laptop plugged in or it will switch to it from my PC whenever the laptop wakes up.
• We have a Samsung TV in the living room and at least once a week, my partner turns off the TV and my monitor at the same time.
• There are a lot of issues with the monitor going to sleep and not waking up properly (The internet is packed with complaints). You have to restart your PC to get it to wake.
• You can’t just mute the monitor. There will be a constant on-screen indicator that the monitor is muted. So you leave the volume at 1.

Hardware-wise things aren’t all rosey either.

• The ports on the monitor are micro-HDMI and DP, so new cables for you.
• The subpixel layout (on this monitor at least) leads to blurry text with coloured halos.

Glad my job paid for this, not me.

Do you know how things are on Linux for this, by any chance?

Thank you for the reply.

I’m just getting into these things. And immutability seems like a double edged sword.

I just started using Bazzite. It’s my second attempt at a Linux gaming setup (Pop_OS was first, Bazzite is working out much better).

What made you lean away from Bazzite, if you don’t mind expanding on that?

It’s only $99/ year!

Though you can only read it on registered devices.

My first and current distro is Pop_OS and it’s been a bit of a pain in the ass. I need to run terminal commands to get Bluetooth to work, Rocksmith is a lost cause, my display signal dies randomly, forcing a restart.

Thinking about Bazzite, but read this article and maybe Ubuntu is just easier, for now?

(Nvidia gpu giving me pause over which will support it better)

I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

And when high-level languages started appearing.

Remember that the reported nm resolution is kinda arbitrary and laced with marketing wank.

Interesting that we got the same result.

iOS?

Pop!_OS this was a good idea for a new game.

Figma - Ligma - Ligma balls!!! GOTTEMM

I jumped ship to PopOS a few months back.

There are some issues, like Bluetooth not starting without some terminal commands, I think I have to wipe or otherwise mess around with my 1TB NTFS storage drive to mount it and stuff like that.

But all the games I’ve tried to play work fine.

CPU: 3700x GPU: 4090

It’s true, but Intel fucked around for years and now they’re finding out. I’m happy to watch them stew for a year or so before getting back on their feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCPhbN1l024 Futurama at it again.

I’m just trying to say that one point of reference shouldn’t be treated as hard fact. Especially if the results are close.

<5% is within margin of error imo. Especially for a single run.

Still! Even if losing by 5%, on a multi core test with 40% fewer cores is pretty nuts.

That’s a good reply, but even the pitch there doesn’t tell me anything about the class of consoles we’re taking about.

I am RetroDECK!