It has been a little bit since my last post. I generally post when I am bored at work and the past 2 weeks were busy.
Today for a change I am curious about your hardware. Do have a laptop, desktop, both? One, 2, more? Why so many if you got more than 1? What hardware is it in it? Anything you would like to upgrade/change for your use case? Ever ran into any support issues with them? Any Steamdecks or funky hardware around?
My main rig is an AMD Ryzen 7950X with a Radeon 7900 XT. I knew I wanted a 7950X after seeing it fly through Windows 9x on 86box (cycle-accurate 80s/90s PC emulator), and throw some punches playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (also why I got the 7900 XT, it’s only slightly worse than a 4080). This was the rig I recently bought from a vendor and so far I’m in love with it. It does Linux near-perfectly, the liquid cooling and RGB needs a bit of tweaking but Liquidctl + OpenRGB does the trick right now.
Then, I have a gaming laptop with a Core i7 and RTX 2070 Super smushed into it. This was like a grand cheaper than buying a whole new rig, especially since the rig at the time wasn’t really broken or problematic. I was also depressed from COVID lockdowns so probably wasn’t my best decision, lol. This laptop served me well gaming-wise but I can’t use Linux on it, like at all. Fractional scaling issues and Intel’s RST makes it a pain.
Then there’s my Steam Deck, which basically rendered the laptop and my Nintendo Switch obsolete. If I know I’m going to need a portable gaming system, I just bring my Steam Deck out now.
Do you actually pllay Flight Sim or just were just impressed by the performance in it?
Shame that the laptop won’t run linux properly :/ but at least the Steamdeck comes in to the rescue:)
I’ve been wanting to play it for a bit. Was impressed with the game watching reviews during COVID lockdowns, but my PC at the time would not have been able to play it well.
Then by the time I get the new PC… they announce MSFS 2024.
Ahhh alright. I was asking in case you did how your experience was with it on Linux because I own the game but I haven’t touched it in forever because I can not be bothered to boot into Windows because Protondb doesnt look optimistic with it.
Huh I completely missed the 2024 version news, gotta check that out.