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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn't precisely say they're starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

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[–] argarath@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

This is the fifth person I see misinterpreting what Steve said about doing Linux performance testing, they aren't going to start doing this soon, they will only start doing it WHEN SteamOS is released for desktops! It was very clear on the video FFS

I'm also really fucking excited for that tho, I recently switched to mint and helldivers 2 actually feels smoother than on windows, it has been such a good experience!! I cannot imagine how much better things will get with more people jumping to Linux and thus game makers actually pay attention to us

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My apologies. Fixed it in the main post with an edit

[–] argarath@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks you! And sorry if I was too aggressive, reading it again it sounded way more aggressive than I expected, I just wanted to sound energetic instead, my bad

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Of course, and no worries. We are all good :)

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I've been daily driving Linux since 2017, I started with Ubuntu and it's been great. I recently got a Lenovo T14 Gen 1 and put Linux Mint 22 on it, and I've been playing some games on it and it's been pretty nice for such a portable laptop.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm excited, but I wish gpu manufacturers would jump on board with physically compatible cards with ffs or smaller form factor business machines. HP, Dell, et al like to limit space for traditional GPUs in those machines. If there was a half height mid/low grade gpu with components on the reverse side that would be a great couch gaming machine.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I recall Intel's GPUs are a little slimmer right? But I've heard middling results with compatibility and such.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I have the sparkle brand intel low profile single slot in an hp sff PC and it barely fits and leaves about 3/8" space between the power supply. It has all the room in the world in the backside. One slot over is a 1x pcie slot if only hp had switched the two or the video card had straight through and out of the case cooling.