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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Agreed here. On CPU side, don’t go with Intel 13th or 14 th gen, mostly due to the manufacturing defects, check gamers nexus on YouTube if you want to catch back up to speed, the new Intel stuff is fine manufacturing wise, terrible performance, check if the prices are good. GPU, NVIDIA usually has kinkier/ more annoying drivers, but if you want to play with AI or anything like that, NVIDIA is still better.












  • Linux appears to largely be done with the transition to the modern tech stack (wayland/Pipewire) and can now focus on getting more features. Packaging hasn’t improved (flatpaks largely stagnated, snaps barely evolved and kept the same issues, so did app images and system packages. On the gaming front, while steamOS has gained users, market share is still somewhat anemic, and support for multiplayer games is now worse than before. Desktop usage did show some ok growth though and now has a solid 4%