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[BeardSpike]

That would be sick, given the rasterization performance with AMD drivers on Linux is closer to or even exceeds Windows in games, which is the opposite of Nvidia. Ray-tracing performance is the last major thing, especially with how people have already gotten FSR4 to run on older cards.

If anyone can figure out what's needed in Mesa for Raytracing to be on par with Windows, it's AMD.

People speculate Valve may be involved behind scene with their unannounced new hardware which could push AMD to patch the drivers if it will be Raytraced capabale device. Even if that's not true it's nice they are throwing in an extra muscle.

Can't wait till or if that will bear any fruit.

That's the only thing I want from Linux, that and hopefully better HDR capability in GNOME. Since I much prefer that DE compared to KDE but I know KDE has better HDR Support right now.

GNOME 49 just dropped on CachyOS but I haven't have had the time to check how is HDR working in there.

 

[JCK75]

I went Bazzite and I've been really happy with it so far

 

[Durin]

If anyone can figure out what's needed in Mesa for Raytracing to be on par with Windows, it's AMD.

People speculate Valve may be involved with their unannounced new hardware.

I would assume Valve is going to be involved, just for the next Steam Deck and whatever potential "console" they make using AMD because their APUs make the most sense.

Also would imagine with both they want better ray-tracing performance and FSR4 just working natively. FSR4 gets close enough to DLSS4 that I can barely tell the difference, and it can still look great on performance mode when I was on a friend's PC that had a 9070XT. Would be a boon for the next Steam Deck to support it just so you can drop upscaling quality to make more games playable as it ages.

Hopefully Valve can work on getting an anti-cheat solution working so Linux doesn't miss out on multiplayer games, and ideally not be kernel-level.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Basically say bazzzite, cachy os, and steam os.

 

[BeardSpike]

Basically say bazzzite, cachy os, and steam os.

Rocking CachyOS since I don't have any issues with it and I like to keep my OS bleeding edge.

Plus I don't want to have a hassle with stock Arch.

Maybe if I had issues like Mattscreative had it would push me towards stock Arch lmao. But I have a nice setup already and I'm doing TimeShift snapshots in case I break something.

 

[Durin]

Since BeardSpike mentioned Mattscreative at the end of this thread, thought I'd share that Matt created a new video showcasing a GUI installer tool for the entire Affinity design suite to work on Linux.

Recently Canva made all of the 3 Affinity apps (Photo, Illustrator & Publisher) now free and combined into a single app where you can tab between raster, vector and layout.



Here is the AffinityOnLinux GitHub page. Seems like you just copy/paste the curl command, the GUI installer has a one-click button to do the whole setup (including any dependencies), and you just make a free Affinity account to launch the app. So if anyone needs an Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign alternative that's actually good, and not GIMP...here ya go.

 

[phant0m]

If you want a full desktop, CachyOS.

If you want a Steam Deck/console like experience where you never need a mouse + kb to manage anything, Bazzite.

Note, you can still use desktop mode in Bazzite, but the 'OS' part is immutable (you can't make changes) and you may get frustrated trying to do more. But it's perfect if you just want to install games on Steam and run them.