| 11 Apr 2026 |
 K900 | NixOS stable may need the layer | 14:32:20 |
| K900 | As it's a fairly old Mesa | 14:32:25 |
| K900 | And also somewhat old Plasma | 14:32:30 |
| K900 | But yes, things should be significantly better on unstable | 14:32:47 |
| K900 | (and you generally want to be running unstable if you're doing gaming anyway) | 14:33:00 |
 niklaskorz | Mesa has the required protocols since 25.1 though 🤔 | 14:33:03 |
| niklaskorz | not sure about Plasma though | 14:33:36 |
 anji | Yeah it's not "out of the box" yet but I can get HDR to work now in all games. With either the commandline above, or gamescope. Which is neat. | 14:34:22 |
| anji | With 26.05 perhaps it will work out of the box? I look forward to trying it out. | 14:35:07 |
| niklaskorz | actually that makes me wonder what happened to the drop VK HDR layer PR | 14:36:05 |
| niklaskorz | ah it's still open | 14:36:54 |
| niklaskorz | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/496305 | 14:36:55 |
| anji | btw I'm on stable mostly because of power management. I suspend/resume this machine all the time and I've had really good experiences with stable. A little less so with unstable at times. And I feel like the gaming experience on stable is excellent too. Just lagging behind a bit of course | 14:40:05 |
| anji | Thanks for all the work you do btw K900. NixOS is great for KDE and gaming :) | 14:40:36 |
| K900 | That is very strange because stable and unstable have the same kernel versions | 14:41:04 |
| K900 | And suspend/resume is predominantly a kernel thing | 14:41:17 |
| anji | Oh they do? I didn't actually notice that. Another misconception of mine busted | 14:42:12 |
| K900 | Well stable defaults to whatever LTS was at time of release | 14:43:34 |
| K900 | And unstable tracks latest LTS by default | 14:43:40 |
| K900 | But if you're tracking linux_latest, and you should be if you're gaming, it will be approximately equal | 14:43:57 |
| 12 Apr 2026 |
 magic_rb | Any hints about new amd gpus? Im thinking about buying a 9070xt ahead of buying a steam frame | 10:11:47 |
| K900 | 2027 for RDNA5 supposedly | 10:13:56 |
| magic_rb | Would you buy a 9070xt now? All i got id a 1060 in a box since its EOL and a 3060 in my laptop | 10:20:12 |
| K900 | I mean | 10:20:54 |
| K900 | Me, no | 10:21:01 |
| K900 | I have a 7900XTX | 10:21:03 |
| K900 | A 9070XT would be a sidegrade | 10:21:14 |
| K900 | At best | 10:21:17 |
| K900 | Should you buy one? I don't know, depends on the pricing and your budget and whatnot | 10:21:37 |
| magic_rb | Next best is a 5080 but those are already 1.5k iirc and im not really willing to spend that much | 10:26:19 |
