Here in the UK I’m getting fed up of regular pride marches because I’m pretty sure “they won” like the fight should be over.

That’s extremely ignorant, especially in the UK where trans people are treated so poorly a woman has been granted asylum in New Zealand over it.

Someone could have used it. Now its just waste.

It’s mentioned 4 times in the article it was headed for the scrapyard, including the sentence you got your info about the battery from. That’s almost impressive…

It’s gotten a lot more stable though some games still cause freezes while others don’t at all. I currently also have to run KDE with direct scanout disabled to get rid of some flicker and fullscreen related freezes, though I haven’t noticed a difference in how it feels compared to with it on.

One non Linux related issue I don’t see mentioned enough is that at least some cards suffer from pretty bad coil whine at normal fps values (~120 is the loudest on mine). I don’t hear it through my headphones but it’s something to be aware of if.

Performance has improved and it’s usually been around what I’d expect aside from ray-tracing, which is still a weak spot but close enough to be playable. ROCM (AMDs cuda equivalent) is working now and FSR4 recently got a breakthrough by vkd3d devs so it might be next.

I don’t regret my choice at all but I’m a tinkerer, if you want it to be 100% ready instead of 90% it’s probably better to wait a year.