INITMalcanis

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417

From reading the comments, the root issue is indeed a DRM one, and the situation is rather murkier than you make it sound.

Basically, yes. Because of the HDMI Forum's bullshit licensing limitations, you're restricted to 60Hz. Unfortunately, even though the socket is trivially cheap to license, none of the 120Hz OLED TVs have a DisplayPort socket as far as I am aware.

EVE

Well no one is working on X any more these days, so they're going to have to make the switch at some point.

You can already get 7940HS mini PCs

There is very little demand for a powerful iGPU desktop chip

There was little demand. Things change.

Gaming on Linux "is a hellhole" for a certain (admittedly popular) subset of gaming. If you like playing competitive multiplayer games, well you're going to have a rather restricted choice of available titles because for many of them the anti-cheat software simply isn't ever going to work on an OS that works the way that Linux does. For example, Valorant. There aren't zero multiplayer games that will work, but I'm afraid a lot of the big titles are in the Nope bucket.

Outside that, your odds are excellent. If you like single player games or are into the emulation scene, then games that won't work at all are the exception not the rule.

>Where can I download Steam games in Linux?
I can't really find a consistent answer on this one...

You're overthinking this one. You install Steam, go to Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility > check both compatibility toggles, and get on with downloading like you always did. If you don't want Steam to store games on your boot drive, don't forget to add a folder on another drive.

In theory you can use your existing windows Steam folder, but in practice, just don't unless you're happy to use this as an extended learning experience.

An AMD GPU will save you some trouble, if you can find one. Nvidia isn't a deal-breaker, but will involve some extra work, especially on laptops.

In the sense that we take having 6 or 8 cores for granted

Shout out the the Duron line. Suddenly we could get decent a FPU without paying the Intel tax, and that mattered to me back then because I sure did not have a lot of spare cash.

My Duron 900 was a heck of an upgrade from the old K6-400. It lasted me until the Athlon 2500+ provided a similar incredible performance hike at a very forgiving price.

Pretty much what one would expect from a ~22% increase in GPU clock speed, I guess.