AMD gfx cards cannot meet or exceed 5080/5090 cards. That said, I think a 9070xt is the best choice right now, because it’s probably going to be cheaper overall to just upgrade in 3-4 years rather than buy a 5090 and hold onto it for 10 years or whatever. You do you, but for me, I think upgrading early is the better choice since 2 flagship AMD cards should equal the price of the nvidia 5080.

As far as distros are concerned, Bazzite is a fantastic starting point because you almost certainly can’t go wrong. If you run into programs that need a kernel module or superuser permissions, just distro hop. It’s very likely that in your first time using Linux that you’ll not need those power user things, so Bazzite will be rock solid for you.

Also, in Linux, best practice is to set your home folder to be a separate partition on your HD. You can point your distro to the existing home folder so if you distro hop and you won’t lose your desktop environment prefs/setup or your files.

Here’s my notes on this for Fedora if you need a guide:

/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=geekbench6 com.geekbench.Geekben
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I got a good bundle deal from Microcenter on a mobo with a wifi card that took over a year to be properly supported by the Linux kernel (or whatever relevant entity). This is good advice, but it’s likely that since we’re at the end of the AM5 generation, no new mobos should come out needing updates to function properly.

I’m pretty sure any Rpi is more powerful, smaller, and more efficient than any computer hardware from 30 years ago lol.

I’m comparing ROM hacking to decompilation. Decomp completely renders the full source code as readable and compilable for new binaries. ROM hacking doesn’t go that far.

Very simply, the source ROM is code that isn’t readable in that way. The emulator interpolates the ROM binary. While ROM hacking is a thing, it’s done through hijacking the emulator’s/platform’s API calls.

Imagine having an audiobook as an MP3, but you want to rewrite chapter 8. You have all the words, you can hear them, but you don’t have the script. You have to transcribe everything first in order to have the book text. From there, you can edit what the book says, but it’d be easier if you just had the text in the first place.

Having the source code makes it trivial to do whatever you want with the code. Working through an emulator is not fun from a coding perspective.

My thing is that I use the iPad app with the pencil. The last time I tried GIMP it was great.

Leaving this here for Photoshop converts

https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp

I use Affinity full time at the moment, but if they ever go paid, I’m running straight to GIMP.

Each account is only FDIC insured at 250K. Rich people don’t have a single account worth millions.

So it can’t be traced that they’ve used said books for training data.

Bazzite is the perfect first distro because it protects you from making huge beginner mistakes because the system partition is read only from userspace. If you ever run into something that requires root, move to a different distro at that point.

As an aside, Linux is super awesome because all your user files are kept in your home folder, so as long as you don’t format your home folder, you never lose anything important. Part of the benefit of Bazzite is that it forces you to keep all your files in your home folder, because system files are normally locked.

Œuf, bœuf par exemple

Œ and ẞ are very standard in French and German. Both at the same time if you travel to Alsace-Lorraine.

English should be reformed with diacritics, full stop.

GTA V will be 14 years old at the time of release of VI. They have zero excuses in my book. They should’ve had everything but the technical details of VI mapped out and ready for development 12 years ago.