The AMD zen 6 laptop flagship “Medusa halo” leak also has an RTX 5070 sized GPU, and it can actually run games and and run Linux.

https://youtu.be/K0B08iCFgkk

ARM cpus are pointless until manufacturers decide they want to support anything other than their carefully prepared windows walled garden.

This feature has been supported in Linux and Steam for like 5 years. Gaming on Windows sucks.

Yeah i agree with you, but there is a limit to community support. The Steam Deck specifically has a big community, but most hobbyists don’t like to spend a ton of time maintaining ancient hardware drivers.

I believe my 11 year old Thinkpad T540p still runs mainline kernels too. The GPU is not supported by the 2018 Intel Iris userspace driver though, so I would need to run a legacy driver that does not support vulkan. Its still packaged by Arch, but it does limit my options.

I’d say 10 years until new games stop running with all features, and 20-30 years until it stops running mainline kernels and loses network access to Steam.

Other handhelds with closed-source drivers probably stop running mainline in 5-10 years.

You’re probably going to have a noticeable performance impact from running games off of USB.

It may work, but there are software dependencies that will become end of life. The first to go will probably be the GPU drivers. In 10 years or so, Linux will discontinue the GPU drivers and you will not be able to run the latest Linux kernel.

Yeah the nerds usually find themselves in very powerful social circles if they survive school. Circles of emotionally mature experts with strong careers.

Kids’ needs are of course very important, but abandoning engaging hobbies in favor of some phantom desire to fit in is dumb.

Why would you install Windows 11on a computer? What happens if you don’t do it before October?

Switched my main gaming computer in 2023, never going back.

How naive can you be? You think your vote matters here?
When every single district has been gerrymandered to death for 100 years, nobody’s vote really matters anymore.

This is a very Russian mindset and exactly the kind of beliefs that created Putin. I’m not saying you support him, but I’m saying you are giving him your support either way.

How does Putin’s boot taste?

Oppression isn’t inevitable, even in the US, and you’ll never have anarchism if the state doesn’t put a stop to these oligopolies.