Intel, Ryzen & Shopping
Today this is a sad tale I have to share with you, my friends. My main gaming PC actually died just 2 weeks ago. As I was playing GTA V (thanks to Proton), suddenly everything went off at once. Highly… Continue Reading
Random Opinions
“Just Switch to Linux” Is The Loser’s Game
“if you make it easier to run <insert wish here> in Linux, people will switch in larger numbers”. Ow Boy, how often did I hear that? If I got a penny for every time I heard that, I could make… Continue Reading
Solus, Arch, Rolling In The Deep
For once I will not be writing just about gaming, while I will touch upon that aspect a little later on. At the heart of every Linux system is the choice of a distro. I have always valued the fact… Continue Reading
The Mastodon Experiment
It’s been several months that I have completely stopped Twitter to switch to Mastodon as a microblogging tool. To be honest I was never too hot about Twitter: my timeline was mostly garbage, irrelevant, making it a waste of time… Continue Reading
Rise of Tomb Raider: A Late Opinion
Oh my, did I push finishing this article for so long! Even though I finished Rise of Tomb Raider a long time ago, it left me somewhat indifferent. I can’t say it was a very good game. I can’t say… Continue Reading
The Looming Risks of Stores Fragmentation
While on the whole things are pretty much getting better in many places, sometimes there are two steps back instead of one step forward. The looming disaster for PC gamers in general is store fragmentation. Up until not too long… Continue Reading
There’s No Such Thing as “Linux Games”
Happy New Year 2019 to everyone! Now it’s time to look forward instead of back at 2018. I saw that on GOL they posted an article about their “Top Linux games” of 2018. The wording, and the underlying idea seem… Continue Reading
Gaming with an eGPU? Is it Worth it?
It was on Reddit (/r/linux_gaming) last month for a couple of days, so you may have missed it, but Man_With_Arrow did some tests on his eGPU setup and published them for everyone to see. This may be a new term… Continue Reading
Feral & VP: New Ports Upcoming. For How Long?
Time to catch up with some news. Feral has unveiled very recently that they are working to port two major AAA titles to Linux (and Mac I guess…). One thing to note, none of them is frankly surprising. I would… Continue Reading
MGS V: (dx)V(k) Has Come To
After Witcher3, I decided to experiment again with DXVK. I took another game that I had begun on Windows but had never dared to complete it until now, because I have come to loathe dual booting. At the time I… Continue Reading