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I don't know if it's random, the CPU scheduler still decides what thread to use. It will have its own semantics, but I don't know on what those are based.
It's not just random, it simply does not even work. Because they set this:
+/*Preferred Core featue is supported*/
+static bool prefcore = true;
And later in the code they do the if condition wrong:
+ if (prefcore)
+ WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_PSTATE_PREFCORE_THRESHOLD);
+ else
+ WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_CPPC_HIGHEST_PERF(cap1));
if should look like this:
+ if (prefcore)
+ WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_CPPC_HIGHEST_PERF(cap1));
+ else
+ WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_PSTATE_PREFCORE_THRESHOLD);
There is probably even more wrong, looking at the code quality, but this at least makes the preferred core work.
AMD patches for preferred core (prefer those cores which can clock higher) are a mess and ended up not working because of a wrong if condition. Showing that no one at AMD even tested it before submitting. The programmer in the video complains about AMDs developers being incompetent and shows how it's fixed.
Posting the required version to run the game is not trivial, as this is nothing we can just know, and it can also change with game updates. There is the Steam Deck verification information, which includes a Proton version, but this information is not reliable at all. Valve set Proton Experimental on all games that have not being tested, even on Linux native(!), so we can not take that.
However, we are thinking of changes and collecting ideas at the moment and any constructive idea and critique is welcome. My personal idea about the working Proton versions to show is to simply have a graph, showing the available proton versions with a color code, depending on the reports and their rating. For example: 
And yes, people are reporting incorrect fixes, but this is the nature of user content. And it's impossible to curate them all, it's way too many. But you can always report a false/dangerous report on the discord or IRC (I wish we've had a report button on the page).
The rating is calculated by the report of the users, there is no manual rating done. GTAV works for most people, but some, so it ends up being Gold.
However, these Medal ratings are carried over from the WineHQ rating, when ProtonDB was nothing more than a spreadsheet on Google Docs and was also used when Ratings were considered by the reporters itself. But this turned out to be a bad idea, as people tend to give platinum ratings, despite naming issues in their reports.
So the attempt was to remove the manual rating and instead ask the users about their experience with several talking points and consider by that a rating. This would still use the old medal system, which of course does not work well for such system. That's why a new tier system, which is more a representation between very good and very bad, was created, and you can see it on the dashboard (Change the Rating System to ProtonDB Click Play). However, this was considered as an internal test, but then the main developer was pulled away from ProtonDB for other work and all went basically to a hold.
Now the developer is back at work on ProtonDB and this will hopefully lead to a new and better rating system.
I hope this will shed some light on why it is what it is, and that no one is really happy about it.
Source: I'm one of the administrators on the ProtonDB discord.
Yes, it is the same purpose, kinda. But timeshift runs as a cron and allows for an easy rollback, while I use BIT for manual backups.
No it wasn't. Naughty Dog announced it would run on the SD, but it wasn't. It got verified only on June 13th. Just have a look on the history: https://steamdb.info/app/1888930/history/?filterkey=530
I use Back In Time to backup my important data on an external drive. And for snapshots I use timeshift.
At the moment, the Ally makes news about their bad build quality. I'm curious for how long the hype about that device will last, the Steam Deck still holds up so far.
xone needs to blacklist the xpad kernel driver, which supports all kinds of Xbox controllers, to prevent it from high jacking Xbox One controllers. You will have to install xpad-noone, which is xpad but without Xbox One support and can coexist next to xone.