I’ve heard that ht can cause issues on Intel. I’ll check that, thanks

Thanks, but I already have that. It did make things better but I was still getting freezes so far

It’s too good ;) :D

Oh, I haven’t tried that and AFAIK I’m not even using it. I’ll check, thanks

It’s the experimental one that might be translated to my locale as " limit CPU use"?

Huh. So in this case, the file actually is respected. Refreshing

I don’t know what kind of reel do you reap but coming to fedi to advertise discord is rich

Might still run fine, though

I haven’t been paying attention to GPU market lately, are you actually asking about 9060?

In such case, it seems this is the review you might be looking for

Then it’s not even a year old. The things that see the most movements performance wise are focused on AMD and NVidia. I’m not convinced there will be a huge difference between what he measured then and what you would measure today. If you are comparing that card with a newer one, the latter will probably get better performance. If the difference in performance is worth the difference in price, only you can decide

There is https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-battlemage-linux-may2025/2 but that is not cross-referenced to the other one

My point is, the last time Phoronix did a review on b580, 9600 was not even on the graph yet. When it comes to gaming hardware on Linux, I don’t know of any better place than Phoronix. He does the tests really using a Linux box, really running games (or computing) and sometimes even runs tests again when there is some big release of Mesa etc.
But when trying to decide which generation to buy you most probably have to glue together how the thing you are eyeing compares to the other thing, by comparing both to another one that is present in both comparisons

now one BNPL provider has announced a deal with a gaming company to allow people to finance in-game purchases.

Great, another data leech for marketing machine

offers interest-free biweekly payment plans

Uh-huh. I wonder, what do they monetize on, if the debt is interest-free. Surely this is only to grow user base. No basket analysis at all…

Reading your exchange here, one thing comes to my mind. One of the core principles of open source was that if you were distributed something, you have to retain the right and possibility to modify it to your use case. And if you’re going to distribute it yourself, you have to disclose the source of what you distribute. So in the OS spirit, even if creators put guards in place, end users have to be able to modify what was distributed to them

They experiment and learn

Not everyone. Some just don’t connect the dots and will rather call you and wait for you to come than experiment

How possible is that they will be needing some bleeding edge update of WINE or kernel?

If you think you can expect that they won’t need to do bleeding edge updates, pick something that is easy to use for you and just choose a WM that will be easy for them

My grandma and mom use Manjaro with XFCE. Or rather they use XFCE, I use Manjaro on their PCs ;D. They don’t need to update to, for example, NTSync enabled version ASAP, so it’s fine with me just doing an update during some holidays for grandma and over the phone for mom.
We used to try Mint for their boxes. I was banging my head against it as always with Debian based distros and the effect was that for them the downtimes were longer. Despite our mutual hopes, mom never really got self-sufficient with managing the OS. Even with GUI based package manager. So I just migrated them to Manjaro and now we are all happier. For me the updating is less painful and is faster, for them it just works

But if you would need to educate such user on how to use some package manager to update something, then maybe there might be some differences between GUI package managers that might help you
although

for someone who doesn’t know how to do much more than check their email and log in to Steam

I think it will be you doing the updating in the end

Take a look at Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linux/4
I think you are looking at two cards of very different capabilities

EDIT: unless you mean 9060
https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux/2

The mood in the screenshots got me interested

Some real gems in there

And same argument can be applied to other tech as well: “Linux should be illegal because people can use it to hack computers and send spam.” Or the entire internet can be used as a tool for criminal activities. What does that tell us about the internet? This in itself isn’t very straightforward in my opinion. It needs to be factored in and regulated. But it’s not the same question as should we have AI be part of the world.

I was thinking similar when reading the article. Going by the logic proposed in it, GIMP development team should be responsible for which images will get mashed together using it

AFAIK it’s the same technology, just applied to sensor->driving instead of prompt->text/image

But I won’t be angry if mods here decide it doesn’t fit

I’ve been using ZArchiver and Ghost Commander and haven’t noticed a big difference vs Linux. It might depend on device’s hardware too