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Enough software questions for now, what is your hardware? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It has been a little bit since my last post. I generally post when I am bored at work and the past 2 weeks were busy.

Today for a change I am curious about your hardware. Do have a laptop, desktop, both? One, 2, more? Why so many if you got more than 1? What hardware is it in it? Anything you would like to upgrade/change for your use case? Ever ran into any support issues with them? Any Steamdecks or funky hardware around?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My main rig is an AMD Ryzen 7950X with a Radeon 7900 XT. I knew I wanted a 7950X after seeing it fly through Windows 9x on 86box (cycle-accurate 80s/90s PC emulator), and throw some punches playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (also why I got the 7900 XT, it's only slightly worse than a 4080). This was the rig I recently bought from a vendor and so far I'm in love with it. It does Linux near-perfectly, the liquid cooling and RGB needs a bit of tweaking but Liquidctl + OpenRGB does the trick right now.

Then, I have a gaming laptop with a Core i7 and RTX 2070 Super smushed into it. This was like a grand cheaper than buying a whole new rig, especially since the rig at the time wasn't really broken or problematic. I was also depressed from COVID lockdowns so probably wasn't my best decision, lol. This laptop served me well gaming-wise but I can't use Linux on it, like at all. Fractional scaling issues and Intel's RST makes it a pain.

Then there's my Steam Deck, which basically rendered the laptop and my Nintendo Switch obsolete. If I know I'm going to need a portable gaming system, I just bring my Steam Deck out now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you actually pllay Flight Sim or just were just impressed by the performance in it?

Shame that the laptop won't run linux properly :/ but at least the Steamdeck comes in to the rescue:)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've been wanting to play it for a bit. Was impressed with the game watching reviews during COVID lockdowns, but my PC at the time would not have been able to play it well.

Then by the time I get the new PC... they announce MSFS 2024.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ahhh alright. I was asking in case you did how your experience was with it on Linux because I own the game but I haven't touched it in forever because I can not be bothered to boot into Windows because Protondb doesnt look optimistic with it.

Huh I completely missed the 2024 version news, gotta check that out.