I still cannot believe how far gaming on Linux has come. I still remember back in 2013 when Steam was first released for Linux and I was stoked that I could finally play some games on Ubuntu without having to mess around with PlayOnLinux and have abysmal performance. I could play Half-Life natively on Linux!
And now I can pretty much play my entire Steam and GOG libraries without any issues and, sometimes, even better performance than on Windows! And in the case of Steam, I don't even have to do anything, I just click "install" on any Windows-only game and the game just installs and runs perfectly afterward - most of the time, anyway.
I've attached two screenshots I took back in March 2013 of the then newly released Steam client for Linux because I thought it was interesting. Looks very similar to how it looks today 😅
I've just finished my first ever PC! All other PCs I have had up until this point where mostly older office PCs, workstations or just laptops, but I have never built my own.
Nothing fancy, 16 GB of RAM, Ryzen 5 5600, RX 6600. I'll be getting some more RAM soon, though.
Here's a photo comparing it with the Z440 workstation I had been using. And also a photo of the rather messy interior, I am really bad at cable management 😅
Currently running Pop!_OS and it's working very nicely! Very nice not having to mess around with NVIDIA drivers anymore.
@mjohanning make sure to test the RAM clock. You can get significant performance boosts by running RAM at the label clock speed (mine is 3200MHz) but many motherboards make that opt-in in their pre-boot config, and they'll run at 2133MHz instead (for DDR4).
Does anyone know of a good (preferably free) tool / script that can sort photos into folders for year and month automatically by using the photos’ metadata? Seems like something that should be relatively simple.
Surprise merganser visit! I was taking a walk because I’ve been having a headache and spotted this male Common Merganser at the artificial lake near my apartment.