Honestly, they should be

Unfortunately, they all seem to be going for more money than a new 9600XT

Yeah that seems to have much more up-to-date data for the 9060XT and B580 put head to head. Thank you.

Phoronix’s review is from Dec 2024.

I’m less concerned with them being in a different class and more:

1. Bang for buck
2. More than 8GB of VRAM

I’m more concerned with VRAM than I am performance. My 6600 would be fine for me if it didn’t have 8GB

Pretty much the same, although I boot my Linux desktop, Linux laptop, and Steam Deck. My whole house besides my wife’s PC is all Linux now.

My opinion is Microsoft better watch the fuck out, because Linux is coming for their asses in gaming. If Linux can break even 10% of the gaming market, it’s going to get crazy momentum behind it.

There are a lot of things encroaching on Microsoft these days. Death by a thousand cuts.

Nuke Manjaro and install SteamOS on it: A decent, if dated hardware, handheld.

I think you missed the joke.

It’s not really fair to talk about SteamOS 2 and compare it to 3. The original concept tried console gaming and failed, because it was banking on devs porting games to native Linux. With Proton, things are a very different beast.

Windows is unlikely to be unthroned from gaming king, but Linux has grown quarter over quarter and Valve very clearly is expanding into multiple partners with Lenovo’s new SteamOS handheld.

Having a competitor in this space will hopefully get Microsoft to stop being complacent.

SteamOS scares the shit out of them, though, given that they’re creating a “competitor”.