Franzia

Okay got it. Thank you! I just started using desktop linux, I'm on Nobara so I have some expectation that things will be handled for me and I'm not always sure about when I need to tweak things. The extent of my troubleshooting so far is using ProtonDB.

We go over this every week.

• His main channels First and Second Thought will never mention it.
• If you wanna know his real beliefs you have to find him on the Deprogram or on his other socials, the more personal the less careful he is to hide it.
• I'm gonna play the guilt by association card, because he's a political pundit, and all of his public appearances are with tankies who have even more explicitly red fascist style views.
• Here's a major take: He plays "both sides" on the Russia and Ukraine conflict. Negotiate for peace? Ukraine should give up land? Ukraine should end the war? People who say this want Russia to walk away with new land and a new second class of people. Or maybe would even be okay if it happened to more independent states.
• He hasn't changed his views, he's simped over the USSR, done the "America always bad" take reoeatedly: Imperialism is when America does it, not when China or Russia does it.

I firmly believe he can "hide his power level" or share a different level of radical views based on the topic or the platform he's on.

The Deprogram's most recent response to being called tankies? They made a whole episode about it where they said "Tankie is an overused term, and everyone who calls us tankies is a liberal" 😂

He's shared more explicit support of the USSR and other genocidal and evil failed experiments in governance that happened to call themselves left-wing, and while in his main channel he won't talk about it, he's also never refuted or talked about a change in his views. He believes that shit, he just wants to capture viewers into his sphere before he lets them know.

Excellent points.

No hey this is valuable added input. Sorry you've had a rough experience, and I'll take this as a warning that I will most likely have to learn some new skills in dealing with the issues you're describing.

Quake that people actually play. Like look at the virality of Battle bits Remastered, the Battlefield with block characters so you can have like 200 people in the match. Games need to feel snappy and run on a lot of low tech machines, and developers are mostly never catering to that budget demographic. FPS games have a huge demand for this. The hundreds of thousands of nerds who can infodump about how incredible the Source engine feels is my proof. So yeah I think there is still a market for competitive movement game 2.0 - a team fortress 3, a titanfall 3, a quake / unreal tournament that runs well and allows community mapping. Like unironically last gens engines followed the wrong upgrade paths and there is still more performance to squeeze out (titanfall 2 using highly customized source and it looking like a AAA game rather than a source game as my proof)

Hey OP,

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/possible-raptor-lake-refresh-launch-date-leaked

It sounds like Intel is releasing mid-October. I don't know if Intel is of interest to you, and these are described as flagship cards. I also have no idea if this will effect prices on other cards or not.

Because I'm on Linux I have no interest in Intel / Nvidia, though Intel can have amazing performance on Linux when they give it the proper firmware updates.

Intel's previous release was not great, by the way. This does throw doubt in my mind this next one will do anything for you other than potentially reflect in the prices of other products. 🤷‍♀️

I was pretty frustrated reading about the Microcenter 5800x3D situation. I am so jealous of city dwellers lately, I'm looking for reasons to seethe about living in the middle of nowhere.

To play devils advocate, I think on a budget Am5 mobo (b650) Pcie 4 x 4 is the main or only storage choice? I think my mobo came with one pcie 5 x 4 m.2 slot, or maybe it didn't even. And then graphics cards might be on pcie4 for much longer yet as they use 4 x 8 lanes while using a 4x16 slot. There's been a leak that a Pcie5 card from AMD MAY release soon. Neither OP or I will need it for a 1080p monitor though 😆

I honestly let fears about upgradeability get to me a lot more than I hope OP does. I think there is a sub-$1000 Am5 build that can make a terrific value/longevity out of this situation. But when I did, I talked myself into spending a lot more. 😅

Bringing up AM6 is a terrific point! AM5 high end has some really bad issues right now, and AMD very well might to redesign the chip and/or socket to get better performance.

So you could not update the firmware on Navi 3x before this update arrived to Fwupd? Err you could update the card outside of Linux by booting up windows?

Gamers Nexus said they will do a Cities Skylines 2 benchmark next week I think. Not that it will necessarily change your build at all, I'm guessing this will handle it fine and the Gamers Nexus benchmarks of BG3 would have you walking away with the same set of conclusions that you've already arrived at.

Ultrawide monitors often come with extra software to help you enjoy it more like built in KVM functionalities. There's also window snapping managers on Windows like WiLMa. I'm similar to you though, 2x24" mounted to the wall.

I also went down the "is AM4 still good?" Rabitthole and decided because I don't have a Microcenter near me, I could not get a 5800X3D, so I didn't want to build it. After watching many videos though, AM4 is a mature platform and so thoroughly developed. Sales are on fantastic products, and the GPU and RAM will remain upgradeable for years, just that upgrading the CPU would require a new MOBO as well. Building AM5, seems OP already knows a great deal, but the news is that it can be finicky and returning products because they don't work so well is more common than usual.