Thanks for the tip. I might have to try that. It was working mostly fine one day (no VRR) and then it was completely broken the next. :(

VRR isn’t supported by default by most distros. Just because it works with your setup doesn’t mean it works for others.

Also, this event seems to be primarily focused on AMD/Mesa support.

Err… no it doesn’t. There are so many bug reports of neither HDR nor VRR working properly with the steam deck. My deck won’t even dock properly with my TV after recent updates.

It’s better than most other linuxes in the sense that it works sometimes I guess.

KDE Neon using X11 with latest stable kernel+Mesa.

I run an RX6600 and haven’t had any freezing issues. Which version of Mesa and which games? If it’s all OpenGL games that would be rather strange.

Even if humans manage to kill off most life on Earth it will continue to exist, propagate, and become more complex. Again we’re talking about billions of years. There have been huge shifts in climate and mass extinctions many times before and yet here we are.

Interestingly, Sharks became a thing around the same time that massive fungi structures that looked like trees existed.

People forget that life on earth has been around for an extremely long time. We believe that single cellular life first appeared around 3.5 billion years ago. We also believe that the universe is around 13.8 billion years old. That means life has been around and evolving for around 25% of the time the universe has existed. Life operates on a scale far beyond our comprehension.

Another fun fact about life. We think that multicellular life only appeared around 600 million to 1.2 billion years ago. So life was probably single cellular for billions of years. The complexity of life has rapidly increased since then and will continue to do so.

Edit: new research suggests that complex multicellular life may have appeared around 2.4 billion years ago.

Wow good eye. That’s totally it. :)

Well that’s worrying… thanks for the heads up!

Yeah, I keep everything important backed up. I’m definitely fine if it dies. I’m just curious really.

It’s a relatively recent 1TB Samsung 980.

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You can use holo-iso. Hopefully they’ll make it official eventually.

SteamOS is really evolving into something incredible. Now that it supports HDR and VRR it has become one of the best gaming experiences imo. It’s the fine tuning of a PC alongside the ease of use of a game console.

I use an RX6600 and I can tell you that I get a lot of loss when compared to Windows too.

You should also mention which nvidia driver you’re running btw

I’ve found that it depends heavily on what game you’re playing. I wouldn’t say 20% loss is uncommon.

You could try using a kernel tuned for gaming but it probably won’t make up the difference.

Honestly you’re probably better off not comparing to Windows. You’ll often fall short performance and feature wise.

Edit: I’ve also found that people tend to oversell Linux. We desperately want more users but exaggerations do more harm than good.

Gnome and Pop OS. I only briefly tried Wayland but multiple games just failed to launch or would launch and then crash not launch again.

I’ve tried wayland but it seems like games often don’t work :(

Same experience here. I recently made the switch and love how so many regular annoyances disappeared.