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suse is neat 🥰

habibi I’m afraid I’ve not had good experiences with manjaro, I may need to defer to someone else in this thread. tumbleweed is cool as heck though.

I’d personally stick to fedora?

This may be at odds with stability somewhat being rolling release, but you may want to check out SUSE tumbleweed or EndeavourOS. You already have a solid pick based on your established requirements.

Couldn’t hurt to poke around other offerings in a VM, though

As some commentators have mentioned, that was mostly fine at the time of Ellesmere (2016ish?) where games wouldn’t so frequently shoot past that limit. In today’s environment, we find that a much higher proportion of games will want more than 8 GiB of VRAM, even at lower resolutions.

Notably, the most recent predecessor in this sort of segment (RX 7600 series) used the XT suffix to denote a different SKU to customers, though it’s worth mentioning that the XT was introduced quite a bit later in the RDNA3 product cycle.

I can agree that the tweet was completely unnecessary, and the naming is extremely unfair given both variants have the exact same brand name. Even their direct predecessor does not do this.

The statement that AMD could easily sell the 16 GiB variant for 50 dollars less and that $300 gives “plenty of room” is wildly misleading, and from that I can tell they’ve not factored in BOM at all.

They blanketly state that GDDR6 is cheap and I’m not sure how they figure.

didn’t realise people were calling the next witcher game woke because of this, but it’s 2025 and there’s no bar too low.

detractors probably never realised you could play parts of TW3 as Ciri because of skill issue

well, at least they provided some rationale for switching browsers. still, it’s good thing we have bazzite.

I feel that, I just wanted to set your expectations. I prefer and will continue to use CalyxOS but I have no expectation that they will deliver the same level of protections/mitigations at the OS side as Graphene given their project scope is different.

CalyxOS aims for a private, yet simple (attainable) Android experience, and I align more closely with their ideology on having a FOSS replacement for Google Play Services in MicroG.

I suppose one thing you could levarage is work profiles on Calyx to “jail” apps you do not trust, though I’m not sure that meaningfully builds upon Android 15s own application sandboxing.

Perhaps as a long term goal you could look into making a custom fork of CalyxOS for your device and incorporating parts of Graphene’s hardening but this will be a lot of work.

As a calyxOS user, if your key concerns are security and device hardening, I’d recommend you just make a seedvault backup and switch to graphene.

The two projects have somewhat different scopes and I don’t think you’ll achieve the same degree of sw security on calyx.

I wish I had a ricky style shitmobile to park next to cybertrucks for comedic effect