Oh it’s possible, and it runs well, but I’d never recommend the SD for that.
But it’s all in your expectations I guess. I don’t use my SD for serious game sessions, I use it to goof off in bed, or on a plane or ferry.
A lot of people I’ve spoken to seem to think it’s a replacement for a ps5 or a full sized gaming computer. It’s enough to get by, but I wouldn’t tell anyone to chuck their setup and get one.
Reminds me of the Event Horizon’s engine room.
This is why my wife gets a stomach ache from brewed coffee, but will absolutely destroy a jug of cold brew.
It’s an outstanding machine for little rogue-likes at the bus stop, or some Star Fox, but I’m not even going to try to load something like Expedition 33 on it.
I wasn’t prepared for every dungeon to be the same map with different doors locked. If I wanted to play Heroquest, I’d play Heroquest.
Yeah, it was super fun. I tried reformatting, I bought a new drive and put new Windows on it and the same thing happened.
I could drill down into the work that went into DXVK before Proton came about, enabling the Steam Deck, but that’s a boring history lesson. I will concede that newer bleeding edge hardware is far more likely to be plug and play on Windows, but one of the leading reasons I transitioned was Windows removing support for the audio chipset on the motherboard for my Ryzen 1600. Every time I rebooted, I’d have to unpack a zip file and reinstall the audio drivers, it was maddening.
In my experience (so, totally anecdotal), my hardware is stable longer on Linux than Windows.
Yeah that’s the biggest reason I haven’t pulled the trigger on a VR set.
The pace of hardware for the last few years has been crazy rapid with almost zero thought given to non-windows OS’s. The people working on reverse engineering drivers for headsets get one operable just in time for it to be out of date.
I mean, yes, but I also do dev coding work, run AI models, produce audio and video content from my machine. But years ago I adopted a ‘No BS’ software approach and rid myself of software that was deliberately getting in my way so transitioning to a fully *Nix workflow wasn’t an issue for me.
If anyone working with aggressively anticonsumer software right now tried to switch, it’s a nightmare.
Nvidia is a real stepping stone on itself, keep with it and I’m sure you’ll learn your way around.
Think of it like moving to a new house. Even if you put your furniture in the same place, the floor plan is different, so for the first little bit you’re bound to stub your toe in the dark.
I fucking hope not.
The other night I dreamed Uncle Scrooge solved The Lament Configuration, so Huey Duey and Louie went to the pain dimension to rescue him. I don’t want to dream, I just want to die in peace.
If all you do is game, outside of a few key games (Destiny 2, uhh,couple others) the experience on Linux is better for many folks.
I like the idea that they approached Sony about making a Horizon game but Sony said no and they were like "Oh, well, this game is coming out…
Embrace Gaming, Extend Gaming, Extinguish Gaming.
Lenovo also sells older models for dirt cheap on their website sometimes.
These people love power more than integrity. Until there’s action it’s all just posturing.
Expedition 33 took 30 people five years to make and it cost $65 CAD. That’s a recent example, but there are so many affordable great games by small teams, I just think corporate game development is bloated.
You don’t even have to go that far, just read the back cover.
It’s an outstanding controller for games with mouse input, but it’s less than fantastic for traditional controller games, imo.
It’s also very divisive. I love it for couch Civilization, but I have an 8bitDo for expedition 33.
I’m not buying this just because Konami can get stuffed. They canned Kojima then rereleased his greatest work.