My friend just upgraded from a GTX 1070 to an ARC B580. His motherboard was pretty old so getting bios updated with resizeable bar was some work. He also chose reinstall with Ubuntu because it was the version of Linux that was listed as officially supported. After that he has been happy with the performance increase he has gotten.

I must have blinked and missed when they were affordable.

Does that work in Linux now? Last I heard they were working on a Linux version but it was a limited roll out.

Just started playing it with friends. If you like Terraria and Minecraft, you will like this.

My guess is that Intel GPUs going away completely is very unlikely. The reasoning being that they will need GPU IP for laptops and desktop iGPUs. Also they need cards for data center applications. I think the more likely risk is they scale back to only a couple consumer dedicated cards targeting a price they can sell in large numbers. So they don’t increase competition, but fill a gap at the low end that AMD and Nvidia mostly ignore. Not the worst thing, but I think we all want them to have more success than that.

I’m pretty sure they just play the game so the have something to do between arguments about military secrets on the forums.

You have missed my point. People are already putting in effort at their jobs. When they do get time to relax they don’t want to be required to do a second job.

If this was a car community you would be telling me that everyone needs to know how to do their own oil changes. If this was a baking community you would say everyone needs to make their own bread. A gardening community would say growing vegetables.

These can be valuable and rewarding skills, but just because it is important to you doesn’t mean it should be required of everyone.

You know most people play games as a fun leisure activity. Telling them that they need to do a ton of work just to participate is going to be a hard sell except to a relatively small group of people. That is a large factor in why so many people buy consoles.

I want to make sure I am understanding what you are intending to communicate correctly. At first I thought you were basically saying, “normies need to get good”. But in reflection you could be attempting to say, “Linux advocates are communicating unrealistic expectations which lead normal people to frustration and disappointment.” Or is your intent something else?

Fuck, I remember my assembly language class. I describe it less as “passing” the class and more as “surviving” the class.

In our current age, I think that your first sentence is almost always true.

They aren’t a hero. They are a company attempting to generate a profit by selling a product. This is likely to be helpful to the consumers, but they aren’t making a sacrifice for our benefit.

Don’t see why this is news. “Intel continues to do the thing they almost always do”.