Perhaps this could be used to jailbreak the PS5 🤔

Yeah I have an xperia 5 iii. It’s not compact, it’s just narrow (seriously hate the ultra wide phone displays). Also heavy as a brick.

I’ve played all sims games and all work on linux with wine. Sims 1 is the hardest to get to work because you need a CD crack to get it to run. Sims 2 and newer works great in my experience. I’d recommend using Bottles to install Sims 2. You can install it from CD and play it like normal. Need some tweaks to get widescreen though (but you have that issue on windows as well).

Sims 3 I’ve played in bottles through the EA app (I own a digital copy there). Worked out of the box (bottles has a way to install the ea store app easily). Sims 4 I’ve played on steam (using proton).

I think realtime is on mainline now since 6.12 though so anyone with at least 6.12 should be able to use rt functionality.

I’ll continue to call it forge joe. It’s more cute. It’s like “where do I put these files?” “Just give them to Joe, he’ll know where to store them”.

I remember reading somewhere that btrfs has good performance for gaming because of deduplication. I’m using btrfs, haven’t benchmarked it or anything, but it seems to work fine.

I don’t know about everyone else, but I had a lot more spare time to tinker with linux when I was a student than after, having a full time job. But I guess if you only have the one computer and need it to work, then tinker in a VM or something. Don’t wait with tinkering and learning about linux if it is interresting to you and something you want to spend time on. You might not have the time for it in a few years.

Half Life 3

I agree. Even though I use extensions for dock, desktop icons and appindicators, I respect the Gnome devs for keeping things opinionated. It allows them to focus on implementing core functionality well, rather than having to support every customization option, which would clutter the settings and slow down development.

Next goal then would be vulkan 1.3 such that DXVK would work.

I guess the closest to a decent FOSS piano plugin is MDA Piano, or perhaps search for piano samples. Perhaps someone has created a decent piano preset for the dexed FM synth (but will probably sound very 80s). I’m using pianoteq (unfortunately proprietary, but it has native linux support and sounds good).

Also pacman cache.

I’d recommend go back to arch. I use arch myself and have decided to stop distro hopping. I always end up regretting and come back to arch. The arch install script is quite good now, spares me hours of hunting down what packages to install for a working desktop and configuring of bootloader, etc, that I had to do before for installing arch.

Last time I tried something else was fedora. I liked the seamless experience, but I was annoyed by the very slow updates (why does it take soo long to refresh the repos?), and I missed the awesome wiki and package availability on arch.

I would just get a T530 which is basically identical but it doesn’t have the nvidia GPU. You can upgrade the screen to a W530 1080p one, they’re interchangable.

You will have problems with the nvidia GPU on a W530 on linux. Especially if you want to use the displayport, as that is connected only to the nvidia GPU. Basically the displayport won’t work without permanently enabling the nvidia GPU and disabling the intel iGPU, killing battery life.

Basically my general advice for a linux laptop is avoid nvidia at all cost.

Just a couple days late for me. Just got a new nvme SSD which needed a recent kernel to be successfully initialized on boot. So I had to make my own ISO (september iso had too old kernel).

Gnome. But I use 3 extensions (dash to dock, desktop icons and appindicators) and the adw-gtk3 theme so GTK3 apps looks the same as GTK4/libadwaita apps.

This. Can confirm that it will work as I’ve used vulkan on an old Radeon HD7770, also on a R9 390. Basically you need a kernel parameter in the bootloader config to enable AMDGPU driver.

I never had a game cube so it didn’t cross my mind. AMD’s GCN is short for “Graphics Core Next” though.

One thing that could be worth checking out is whether the power supply is bad/insufficient. That could explain the GPU working when just using the desktop normally (GPU idle/low power), but when launching a game the GPU might get insufficient voltage or something causing the output to be unreliable.

Or as others have mentioned as well, maybe it’s a bad display cable. To try to find the cause of the issue, perhaps try to swap the cables between the two monitors to see if the monitor having issues changes. If there is no change, try to swap the outputs used for the monitor to see if the GPU output is bad (if swapping the output causes the other monitor to have issues instead).

When the screen goes black, does the monitor complain about missing input, or is the image just black as if the GPU outputs a black image? If it is missing input, then maybe the cable/output is having issues. If the image is black then it may be the GPU having issues.

One thing to note for linux and GCN GPUs, is that older GCN based cards doesn’t use AMDGPU driver out of the box, so vulkan won’t work initially. You need a kernel parameter to enable amdgpu for older GCN (at least I’ve had to do that with arch linux). But when it is enabled it works great in my experience. You will get a warning in the console that the support for that GPU is experimental though.

Also vulkan support for Ivy Bridge is not complete and is experimental. It is unfortunately not possible to use DXVK on ivy bridge due to this.