OK I didn’t know that. Pro cards used to have a W in the start of the name.
Ah well, AMD never was very good at naming schemes.

Games that run on Linux are about as fast on Linux as on Windows. In fact they tend to run a little faster on Linux.

Use AMD CPU and AMD GPU for the smoothest experience.
AMD CPU is more reliable, and Radeon graphics have the best support for Linux.

It is estimated that around 12000 Games work on Linux, or about 90%. For specific game compatibility you can always check protondb. Notice though that some games that have native Linux versions are also on ProtonDB, so you should check on the steam client first if there is a native Linux version.

https://www.protondb.com/

PS ProtonDB state the number of games that are verified to work as almost 9,900, and playable as almost 30,000 😎
But Platinum or Gold rated games are only 60%.

Personally I generally check ProtonDB before buying a game, but it’s been quite a while since there was something that didn’t work.

Wow cool rig.👍😎
That’s basically double up overall compared to mine. 😋
I have Ryzen 7, Radeon 6600 XT, 16 GB Ram, 1 TB SSD.

PS:
Didn’t AMD change the naming scheme on the Radeon 9000 series so it’s 9070? AFAIK a 9700 is technically a board dating back to 2003.

I agree, they did help Linux 20 years ago, I started using Linux with Ubuntu in 2005, it’s sad IMO that they’re no longer much of a benefit to Linux. They ruined everything with their dual license shit, and trying to do internally behind closed doors, what other projects were working on, for instance when they made MIR to compete with Wayland. And their Snap package system that is proprietary doesn’t help Linux either.

They’ve made so many bad decisions that have been detrimental to both themselves and Linux as a whole. And since 2010 their popularity has been steadily declining.
I suspect their plan was to dominate Linux and become a de facto standard for using Linux. Instead they aren’t even close to the most popular distro anymore.
On Steam survey they rank 7, and on DistroWatch they rank 10 on page hit ranking for 12 months and 1 month. And on a reddit they ranks 8 as of 2025.

DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking:
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

Steam Harware survey:
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

Reddit stat:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1sta2pu/oc_linux_distro_rankings_over_time/#lightbox

It’s sad because Ubuntu had a very strong start, But Mark Shuttleworth wanted to maintain control of code that was used to improve Ubuntu, and introduced the dual license for Ubuntu projects, so Canonical could close up further developments any time they wanted. Meaning Ubuntu/Canonical became untrustworthy as maintainers of anything open source.

Luckily we now have other supporters like Valve now. And it is very telling that Ubuntu is no-longer the #1 goto distro for commercial projects.

Yes I guess it could, but then the growth should appear equally or greater as independent installs.

Originally Ubuntu was marketing itself on freedom, and the open source culture that had made the Linux desktop possible.

Growing on Windows 11 is not helping promote freedom from proprietary software, so I don’t see that as a positive.
Ubuntu has lost perspective, and abandoned the ideals and purpose of Open Source IMO.

Wow that’s pretty cool, I thought M68k series ended with 68060!
I still have an old Amiga 500 that my wife bought for me many years ago, because I never shut up about how superior Amiga was back in the day, and how amazing it was to program M68k assembly direct to hardware on it.

The highest power Amiga I ever had was a 68030 expansion card to an Amiga 2000. Then I stupidly switched to PC, because that was the future. But the PC killed my interest in programming, because it’s only semi open, not open like the Amiga was.

In their special area they generally do, outside that they are probably like most people with an IQ above 100.

Unfortunately KDE still has serious shortcomings compared to what was possible with Compiz.
For instance hot keys cannot be bound to mouse keys. Which is extremely annoying here 20 years later that it can’t.
Until recently you couldn’t even bind them to numpad keys! Because QT didn’t support it. So it was the same for ALL QT programs.
I like KDE it is a decent desktop, but even today it is not as good as Compiz was 20 years ago.

Yes I know there are many Americans that are very unhappy Trump became President.
And I really really wish you luck next time. But for now your country is unfortunately represented by madness.

My guess is you will only have to wait 2 years.
https://youtu.be/f5-uvWFXdSI?t=53

Stop whining, in 1985 I paid $400 for 256 kilobyte RAM for my Amiga 1000, AND I WAS HAPPY!
You kids nowadays are spoiled, with 100,000 times more RAM if you have an average build with 16 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM.
But the Amiga was still more fun than modern computers.

Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?
Hmmm… 🤔 …
It must be the kids. 😋

Unfortunately I had to switch back to X11 because Plasma on Wayland lacked a feature I need.

Oh boy I’m getting all nostalgic, it’s 20 years ago it came out now!

Thanks and yes I know.
But AFAIK it was mostly limited to Ubuntu Unity and XFCE for a long time, and support became shaky.
I actually looked it up just before, and it seems Mint has support for it, but looking at the emerald themes it looks nothing like it did back in the day where it was new and revolutionizing. Also I’m lazy, I don’t care to fiddle so much with my computer anymore.

OK, maybe that would be possible to prevent, but I doubt it.

Exactly

Sigh…

Now read a little further:

The bill must still pass through the California State Senate, and will pass through California governor Gavin Newsom’s desk if it clears the Senate. Newsom can then either sign it into law, or veto it.

But I can see the people upvoting you didn’t do that either. Sigh…
It’s not my fault the headline is stupid and misleading. It has only passed 1 step out of 3.

mandating that computers have to have technology that prevents hate speech.

What a brilliant idea, let’s get on it immediately. 🤣

Joking aside, you are 100% right.
Except I think the idea of printing a gun is to avoid detection in metal detectors.

That law is impossible to follow and moronic.
You can’t prevent a new unknown designs to be printed, and my guess is those are pretty trivial to make. And there is guaranteed to be workarounds too. This is just enshittification by law.
My guess is that this law will not pass.