No, but apparently I have one of the only WiFi/Bluetooth chip of MediaTek Corps. MT Series that is inexplicably not supported. Most others of that lineup are, just this exact one isn’t.

The MT7902 WiFi/Bluetooth Chip by Mediatek Corp. does not (and probably never will) have any official driver support. There are some unsuccessful community attempts to get it working, but nobody actually managed to pull it off.

G6 Soundcard works for simple pass-through but SBX features aren’t natively enabled, you need a Windows install with Soundblaster Connect to enable the functionality and load the settings into the onboard memory of the card.
Linux “supports” Dolby Atmos but it sound mostly like dogwater if not combined with Atmos mixed audio.

>Be me
>Build new PC
>"Maybe I’ll try out Linux. "
>Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
>Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
>Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
>No support for $170 Sound Card
>4 hours of troubleshooting later
>Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
>“Fuck this”
>Nuke Partition
>Install Windows
>Shit instantly just works
>Use Linux partition drive for backups

I’m going to play little off topic devils advocate here.

I’ve recently had to choose between a 5070 TI and a 9070 XT for my new setup.

If I were to listen to any reviews - the general consensus would be that Nvdias 50XX Series is a steaming pile of dogshit that will burn your house down and kill you dog.

Every single of those reviews boils down to: AMD slightly faster but actually worse at everything. But because price lower number, AMD better. PS: Nvidia bad.

The RTX series is primarily a gaming card and gaming performance is all that matters, not all that additional fluff that reviewers dish out to make a 7 min video into a 20 min video.

Nvidia has the clear R&D advantage for new technologies, older titles barely matter in this discussion because everything pre DLSS era is going to run at 200+ FPS at 4K anyway (with the exception of 32bit PhysX titles, dick move Nvidia).
Newer titles on the other hand, are an absolute wildcard of performance because nobody cares about optimization anymore. I’ve used a 1080 Ti for 8 years and even some of the newest titles still ran at around 60 FPS maxed out. But here’s the catch, the discrepancy between highest and lowest setting has gotten miniscule, to the point where you’d get 60 FPS on lowest and 50 FPS on max settings with a 1080 TI. My personal reason for an upgrade tho, was Raytracing and Generative AI Performance, both at wich AMD sucks.

“Don’t blame the Card, blame the Game.”

Nowadays performance is more about the rendering technique rather than the visual settings. And when it comes to technique Nvidia is clearly the winner. Now that I have a reference between DLSS and FSR, I can confidently say that AMD will be in 2 years where Nvidia is now.

Let’s talk about price. People are still living in the fantasy that GPUs are going to cost 400€ again like it’s 2014 (which they didn’t even do back then). 800€ is the new baseline for a midrange GPU - that’s just how it is now. I’ve paid around 900€ for a 1080 8 years ago, now I paid around 900€ for a 5070 TI and get about triple the performance. So what’s the problem?
I think there’s a small but obnoxiously loud minority of “must have the newest thing” babies that didn’t get the memo when we reached the technical limitation of the Moore’s Law about 10 years ago. You won’t get double the performance in 2 years for the same price. No reason to whine about it. Want to get your moneys worth, keep you old GPU for another 2 years, there problem solved.

Also, what not a single reviewer ever has mentioned is the significant increase in power draw that AMD has over Nvidia.

Let’s do a simple calculation:

Price for a 9070 XT: ~800€
Price for a 5070 Ti: ~900€
Difference in favor of AMD: 100€

Power draw 9070 XT: 300W
Power draw 5070 TI: 250W
Difference in favor of Nvidia: 50W
(Based on tests of the same games with equal settings)

My regional price per 1kWh is ~0,40€
100€ / 0.40€ per kWh = 250 kWh
250 kWh / 50 W = 5000 hours

My average game time per day is maybe 2-3 hours, make it 2.5 h.

5000 h / 2.5 h per day = 2000 days ≈ 5.5 years

Since electricity prices are constantly on the rise, and I intend to keep my current setup for maybe another 8 years, the price difference between Nvidia and AMD doesn’t really matter in the long run.

The funny thing is I paid about 2200€ in 2017 for a high-end build that could play everything I throw at it, and now I paid 2000€ for another high end build that can play everything I throw at it. People forget to mention that while GPU prices have gone up. Everything else has gone down. RAM and HDD/SSDs, are dirty cheap nowadays.

While yes, Nvidia is a greedy and shitty company, let’s not pretend like their product doesn’t do what’s advertised - that is playing games really well. And AMD is not a saint either, their GPUs aren’t exactly cheap either.

I think I haven’t played a single skirmish round of Company of Heroes 1 without the Blitzkrieg mod in the past 15 years.

I tried it but I couldn’t get over the fact that there is no dedicated parry/block button. Also the game looks horribly dated with muddy textures and environments.

It doesn’t have the soul of a Metal Gear game. Its quite literally Bayonetta with a Metal Gear reskin. Metal Gears gameplay is mostly about player freedom. You have to get from point A to B and how you do it is up to you. Rising takes all of that away, just hack and slash to kill everybody. Its still fun, but definitely not a Metal Gear players cup of tea.

I had the same realization about 40K Space Marine (the old one). When it originally cane out I loved it, but I replayed it a few months ago and realized that its kind of bad. Its just corridor, arena, corridor, arena, corridor,… There’s not really anything to it, not even the story. Why is it so highly praised? Because back when we first played it we thought it was cool and nostalgia is a powerful thing.

I only played Rising recently precisely because back when it came out it deviated so much from the first Trailers. I wanted Metal Gear Solid 4 but with Raiden, but what we got was Metal Gear Devil May Cry.

$600 <-> prolly three fiddy

Which one? The original? The Remaster or the Remake? Or the 2nd or the Remaster of the 2nd?

Literaly one of the most popular Mods for Xcom 2

XCom2 the content just DOES NOT END.

And MGS Peacewalker. How they cramed so much stuff unto the tiny PSP disk is beyond me. The list of unlockables is insane.

It’s called an accent, honey.

Factorio

For anyone who wants an example, go to the Helldiver’s 2 patch logs on the Steam Community Hub.

No matter which one.

Last of Us 1: “You have the freedom to kill this doctor, or you can just shoot him in the leg or something.”

*Player shoots him in the leg*

Last of Us 2:

At those time frames it’s not just feature creep you have to worry about, but tech- and social creep as well. Think back what games were popular 12 years ago and what hardware we had. That’s why usually in longterm, large scale projects you have a technological freeze, where you essentially ignore all progress made outside of your project for the sake of completion, which Star Citizen clearly hasn’t done.

The problem is also how YouTube compartmentalizes the content. I like the Alveus Sactuary Channel, Maya Higa has probably one of the most noble causes for streaming. But because she’s related to OTK, YouTube thinks it’s fine to blast me with the full dose of their cringe drama. No amount of “not interested” or channel blocking is going to solve that, because there’s always gonna be copycat clipper channel reposting the same twitch clips over and over.

It’s funny how YouTube killed early short form animation channels (which was arguably peak YouTube content at the time) in favor for long form content, but then introduced Shorts. But those barely pay anything so people either rehash their 10+ minute video into 20 YT Shorts or spam AI generated garbage en masse. There’s also apparently no copyright enforcement on those shorts, since you can essential watch the entirety of a 2.5 hrs movie in segmented shorts with shitty music layered on top.

I wish YouTube allowed for blacklisting words in video titles for your feed. I swear if I see another “*insert vtuber* broke everyone by saying *insert mildest sexual innuendo*” I’m gonna loose it. What also sucks is that YouTube shorts got entirely integrated into Twitch, so the clips you see posted of any streamer is most likely some 3rd party clipper channel leaching off the actual streamer. Which means spam goes up, quality goes down. Sure its awesome for the streamer, they get a lot of traction and new followers but at the cost of their content flooding other platforms through reposts.

I realy can’t judge a person I don’t know personally, but I sure is hell can judge their content. And for Asmonds videos and streams, there’s just nothing there. There is literally zero content. You know those memes that imitate Joe Rogan, well here is one for Asmond.

“Yeah, Yeah”

“They way it is, is actually…” *blanket statement*

“Yeah, Uh Huh, No”

“Well actually…” *other blanket statement*

“What I would do is…” *some nonsense*

“Yeah, Yeah, Uh huh.”

Continues to pause and unpause a 10 minute video over the course of an hour.

That’s basically it, it’s almost an anomaly how content like that can get somebody filthy rich. It ads zero value to the platform or any of the viewers lives. I can even excuse other creators doing their YLYL challange #547, because it at least involves humor and engagement. But if Asmond would disappear over night, I bet not only would nobody miss him, there wouldn’t even be anybody to replace him, because his success is a straight up anomaly.

All these shitty reaction streamers are literally standing on the great shoulders of Filthy Frank, Jontron, early H3H3, early Idubbz, Cinemassacre, Ray William Johnson, etc. But those at least had weight behind their reactions, with bits and actual production behind every video. Those reaction streamers literally sit on their ass watch videos and somehow people pay them solely to hear their opinion, what a sad existence on both ends. To be frank, this is barely a step up of those YT shorts of a guy just staring into the camera while the top half of the screen shows some random video. I know YouTubes moto was “Broadcast Yourself” but some people really shouldn’t take that to heart.

That’s why you use 2-factor-authentication

Bitwarden. There’s no excuse not to use a password manager.