You could try to pick up a used one second hand.
Heat pumps used for cooling aren't any more efficient than an air conditioner, as they are exactly the same technology. The only difference between an air conditioner and a heat pump, is that the heat pump has a valve that lets it work in either direction (to heat or cool), while an air conditioner lacks that valve, and thus only ever cools on one side, and heats on the other.
A window air conditioner turned around so that the exhaust is facing inside the room acts as a heat pump.
While air conditioners/heat pumps are efficient, they still use a lot of electricity. A heat pump is usually considered efficient in comparison to a resistive heater, which is 100% efficient compared to a heat pump's 300%.
Governments around the world continuing to prove that collective action from the people is the only path forward.
Sounds good! Let us know how it goes ^^
Just to narrow it down further, were you getting bad performance on Linux Mint too, or did you only install games on Kubuntu?
Another user mentioned that the power settings can have a huge effect, which also seems like a good lead to look into. You should be able to check it by opening your settings panel and going to the Power Management section. In there should be a Power Profile setting. If it's set to power save mode, it'll limit your performance quite a bit.
Ahh okay. The big thing I was concerned about was if you'd installed graphics drivers from the AMD website, as those would likely be worse performing compared to what comes with Linux built in, and can do wonky things if done slightly wrong, so most avoid them unless they need to do like, scientific compute stuff.
The performance of the Linux driver is very good compared to the Windows one, usually being at parity or even slightly better. Proton can introduce a slight overhead, but not enough to explain the delta in your experience.
The only thing jumping out to me is that you mentioned running hi-fi rush at maximum settings as your benchmark. I looked into the recommended hardware for that game on its steam page, and while it does have a fairly low minimum requirement, the recommended specs are actually very beefy, suggesting an RTX 2070 or RX 6600, which are multiple times more powerful than the integrated graphics on your Beelink.
When I look at what other people are able to achieve on Windows with the same APU as yours in hi-fi rush, their graphics settings appear to be set to low/medium settings, and with a small resolution of 1366x768. At those settings, they seem to be getting around 60fps.
Are you absolutely sure you were maxing out the graphics settings in hi-fi rush on Windows, and at a higher resolution than 1366x768? If you drop the settings to match what is displayed in the linked video, can you achieve similar performance on Linux?
Its been a while since I used AMD graphics on Windows, but I seem to recall that the Windows AMD driver had an ability to automatically set graphics settings for you for an optimal experience, and I suspect it may have lowered the settings automatically without you realizing it, making the performance seem surprisingly good.
This is why worker led decentralized unions like IWW are so important. They are far less corruptable than standard unions.
What drivers did you update, and how?
Reposting a comment I made on a similar post about the 180 mental gymnastics MAGA are displaying.
What you're witnessing here is described in When Prophecy Fails, a study on cults and how they justify continued belief after experiencing events that should disprove their belief.
Cult members will simply invent new reasons to continue their belief and remove the cognitive dissonance they may feel, which oddly results in a further entrenched belief, instead of a weakened one.
I did build the big ship, but I don't think I used the planters effectively. I just remember needing to frequently recharge it and repair it.
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This campaign is not asking to take away IP from devs or publishers, they would still retain it.
Legally speaking, a game sold for a single payment and without clear stipulation of an end of service would be considered a Good under EU law. Tjis means you're purchasing a perpetual license to your specific copy of the game, but not to the IP or copyright.
Ross, the creator of the SKG campaign, goes into extreme detail on this very topic of goods vs services, and how the game industry is committing fraud by destroying a customer's ability to access the content their perpetual license allows.