The recent news that SteamOS may soon be shipped with third-party devices could be particularly important for Linux gaming on desktops.

Even gamers nexus’ Steve today said that they’re about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It’s happening, y’all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn’t precisely say they’re starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
      4·
      3 months ago

      No worries about that, it was a bad wording. The company has stopped producing it, and that’s it. Your cpu is fine, compatible with current software, and can serve you well for still a long time.

      Corporations were so successful in promoting consumerism, that they already messed with us on a psychological level.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      Realistically the AM4 is still more than enough for now. but its technically end of life. the AM5 isn’t worth the jump until theres no other option.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I bought one when I upgraded my truenas, solid performance paired with good nvmes and motherboard, no issues.

    • Sheldan@mander.xyz
      1·
      3 months ago

      They did still release a few ones recently for them. But am5 is the main one right now. It’s not incredibly old, just no new ones will probably be produced. (I think the last am4 were a surprise already) Just for curiosity, why did you go with am4?

      • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        might have been a deal. some retailers are dumb and think lower number means worse, so discount justified. lol

          • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 months ago

            They are end of life now and have ceased production, but if you can manage to find a 5800X3D , that CPU is the definition of sleeper. I had a 5700X I think it was, and the performance boost was f***ing unreal, I expected meagre gains, I saw 20 to 50% performance increase on many games. if you’re into that kind of thing. if you see one for sale, seriously think about grabbing it.

            its the whole reason aside from the OS issue, Im not even remotely worried about the next few years, it can compete with the high end stuff of the AM5 generation still. unreal.