This week we review some news items we missed in the last few weeks as well as come to our conclusion on the Debian challenge.

Topic Links
Geforce RTX 4070
https://www.techspot.com/review/2601-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-ti/
Ryzen 5800x3D vs ryzen 7600x
https://www.techspot.com/review/2592-ryzen-5800x3D-vs-ryzen-7600x/
New Arc drivers and price drop
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-arc-alchemist-big-driver-gains-new-arc-a750-price

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News Items
The Mutalk - https://www.techspot.com/news/97242-someone-invented-voice-muting-vr-microphone-you-strap.html
Proton 7.0-6 - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
Improvements to Dolphin make emulation on Steam Deck even better - https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/gamecube-and-wii-emulator-dolphin-got-a-big-speed-boost-for-steam-deck/
Mozilla is pretty melodramatic about starting a mastadon - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/
Unity 7.7 and UnityX 7.7 - https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/
Open Source Nvidia Vulkan driver making progress - https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/the-open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-begins-to-run-games/
Stadia Controller now has Bluetooth abilities! - https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/bluetooth-support-for-the-stadia-controller-is-now-live/

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NEWS
https://9to5linux.com/proton-7-0-2-makes-more-games-playable-on-linux-fixes-numerous-bugs
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/14/23025968/razer-first-linux-laptop-lambda-tensorbook-tensorflow

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Steam Next Fest Feb 21-28th
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
Still waiting to purchase my steam deck.
Valve is testing native Linux games to decide if the native version runs better than proton.
https://www.techradar.com/news/steam-deck-will-run-native-linux-games-where-it-makes-sense
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/valve-clarifies-how-they-test-native-linux-or-proton-for-steam-deck/
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/valve-is-testing-native-linux-ports-for-the-steam-deck-in-addition-to-proton/
GPU prices showing signs of normalizing
https://www.techspot.com/article/2418-gpu-pricing-2022-update/
Hacker steals 1.7 million worth of NFTs from Opensea customers
https://www.techspot.com/news/93481-hacker-steals-over-17-million-worth-nfts-opensea.html
Master Chief’s face to be revealed in new Paramount+ series
https://www.techspot.com/news/93479-gaming-icon-master-chief-face-revealed-new-halo.html
Nobara Project
https://nobaraproject.org/

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News

Humble Bundle “Humble Trove” dropping Linux support - https://kotaku.com/latest-humble-bundle-change-leaves-mac-linux-gamers-ou-1848356728
Valve squeezing more battery life out of Linux drivers - https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-tweaking-linux-drivers-to-squeeze-more-battery-life-out-of-the-steam-deck-on-steamos-30/
Microsoft set to buy Activision what does this mean for Linux gamers? - https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-acquire-activision-blizzard/
Microsoft's New Metaverse - https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/01/25/microsoft-activision-blizzard-isnt-metaverse-play/
Sony to buy EA? - https://www.techspot.com/news/93143-sony-could-respond-microsoft-acquisition-activision-blizzard-purchasing.html

Amazon Luna Testing

Luna+ - 5.99
Ubisoft+ - 17.99
Family - 2.99

Games I played on Luna

• Control
• A Plague Tale
• RE: biohazard
• Blair Witch

Distro Testing

Linux Mint the clear winner
I have been testing a ton of games with a ton of distros lately on my new laptop and the results speak for themselves Linux Mint just came out on top.

Games I tested

• Horizon Zero Dawn - There was a fix for the messed up grass and sound crackling during my testing so I went back and tested this one again and is now actually mostly playable on every distro except Garuda and ZorinOS.
• Witcher 3 - This game had a lot of stuttering under anything but Linux Mint.
• Metro Exodus (Linux Native and Proton) - Linux Native was not playable on any Distro I tried due to being half cut off of my screen or severe stuttering. Proton on the other hand was not too bad for the most part but Linux Mint still was the smoothest.
• Halo CE Anniversary - Played mostly smoothly with some stuttering on the arch distros but was totally playable on all the Ubuntu distros.
• Splitgate - Has some general Linux issues when comparing it to Windows but is playable on Linux with over 200 FPS on my system just some stuttering issues.
• Valhimne - Playable on all distros except Garuda.
• Project Zomboid (This game ran fine everywhere I tested probably due to low system requirements)

Arch Distros I tried

• Manjaro - Was mostly fine but had some glaring issues such as multi monitor issues and gaming performance issues.
• Endeavor - had some fairly deal breaking bugs like OBS and Screenshots not working with Plasma and generally more stuttering than on most other distros.
• Garuda - Just plain didn’t work out of the box with its dragonized plasma desktop.

Ubuntu Distros I tried

• Ubuntu Gnome 21.10 - This statement goes for all but Mint but basically stuttering was very prevalent on all distros except Mint. Other issues I had were getting optimus to work properly.
• Kubuntu 21.10 - Other issues I had were, games not popping up on the right screens I wanted and super + shift + arrow keys did not help.
• FerenOS - Same kinda issue as Kubuntu with games not working on the right screen
• Zorin OS 16 - Extreme stuttering in most games even with graphics set to low
• Linux Mint 20.3 - Once vulkan shaders were compiled ( which I allowed every distro to compile that I tried) The games ran smoothly with little to no stutters or slowdowns. Even my laptop fans are controlled correctly on mint out of the box. Caveat to that is I do have to set the speed profiles under windows but once thats set mint uses the correct settings.

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• Proton 6.3-8 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Proton-6.3-8-Released 28:00 - Valve improving remote play support with steam deck https://www.tomshardware.com/news/valve-improving-remote-play-support-with-steam-deck 33:00 - Distro Tier List

Steam Summer Sale Picks
Victor Vran - Linux
Outward - Gold
Metro Exodus - Linux
Hand of Fate 2 - Linux
Last Epoch - Linux
Monster Hunter: World - Gold
Tomb Raider - Linux
Divinity Original Sin - Linux
Works better under proton (only tested on proton 4.11)
FFXIV - Gold
Dragon Age - Platinum / Gold
Doom - Platinum
Dead Space - Platinum / Gold

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E3 Announcements
Elder Scrolls VI
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Starfield
Project: Ferocious
Elden Ring
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

News
Albion Online releases mobile version
Steam Next Fest - list of linux releases
Retailers are limiting gfx card purchases
Price comparison May to June
Proton 6.3-5 RC Allows More Windows Games To Run On Linux

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Fedora Wonderings
Trying out Fedora for gaming
Installing Nvidia graphics
https://itsfoss.com/install-nvidia-drivers-fedora/
https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/
Wayland - https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Pipewire - https://pipewire.org/
Pipewire Documentation - https://docs.pipewire.org/
Pipewire Archwiki - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire
Gnome 40 - https://forty.gnome.org/

FPS test results
HL2: Lost Coast (in the future I’ll use… https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/)
Kernel driver in use: nouveau - 63.29
Kernel driver in use: nvidia - 6.86
Kernel driver in use: nvidia X11 - 287.68

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Games mentioned on this episode
Graven
Resident Evil Village
Resident Evil 3: Remake
Final Fantasy 14

News Items
fender makes a final fantasy guitar
Ffxiv players held memorial for Kentaro Miura
OBS supports Wayland
Nvidia teaming up with Valve to release DLSS for Proton
Valve could be making a handheld Linux device

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