Still running a 1080, between nvidia and windows 11 I think I’ll stay where I am.

Switched on my daily driver around 2016 and have been doing all but VR gaming on Linux since about 2019. I would totally recommend it to any one as long as they aren’t a tripple a, release day kinda gamer.

What are you running on yours? I was going to switch mine to Grapene but I have that awesome pink line in the screen and a repair is more than 50% of a new phone.

Yup, I have a 500gb HDD for Steam Games, loading screens are a few seconds longer than you would expect but that just makes time for a beer break.

Valve devs said “we are not working on, and have no plans to re-start work on Half-Life 3” in the recently released HL2 audio commentary. How much clearer to they have to be?

also, go play HL2 with the commentary on, it was awesome and worth the re-visit

My 1080 from 2017 has 8gb of vram. Still works fine.

3.3k over 19 years isn’t too bad considering I bought an Index and Deck :/ If anything I need more games!

Why? 4k is already at the limit of what your eyes can resolve unless you have an enormous screen.

Windows still hasn’t decided what it’s configuration windows should look like, there are still dialogs with the 30 year old W95 design language. I doubt that they were able to put together a seamless gaming UI over that past x months or years.

You can not steal what you can not own. ☠️

I’m a Debian guy but most of the people I know are stuck in the Windows ecosystem because it’s the only one most people know.

I’m not but the majority is.

Like you said though, just buy a prebuilt and you’re already there

As long as Microsoft doesn’t push an update that fucks up your machine, or you don’t boot for a few weeks and have to wait 2 hours for an update…

Even the biggest Steam update takes a fraction of the time of a ‘routine’ Windows update. SteamOS/DeckOS is a huge quality of life upgrade over a desktop.

Game development is about maximizing revenue while minimizing development costs. There won’t be many more Mysts, Dooms, Quakes or Half Life 2s in the gaming future. Get ready for “Generative AI” stories/levels and ever increasing hardware feature set requirements.

Game engines don’t have to simulate sound pressure waves bouncing off surfaces to get good audio. They don’t have to simulate all the atoms in objects to get good physics. There’s no reason to have to simulate photons to get good lighting. This is a way to lower dev costs and increase spending on the consumer side, I would not be surprised if Nvidia was incentivizing publishers to use ray tracing.

Emulation is not a crime. Refusing to re-release existing games should be.

No company hates its fan base more than Nintendo.

Hey Nvidia, how about you spend some time releasing some open source drivers instead of re-working some one else’s already excellent software?