u/Contramuffin

No, weaker. It's an overclocked 7600M (laptop GPU). There's many leaks that show that Valve specifically targeted a low cost by using laptop components that AMD couldn't sell.

The CPU is also weak: it has 2 big cores and 4 little cores. Estimated cost of materials (before the RAM shortage) was ~425 USD, now the cost of materials is ~550 USD

Parent comment thought you were being sarcastic

I'm guessing this would be Valve Fremont? At least, the name would make sense for what we know about Fremont. From what we can tell, it's a Steam Machine-like PC, designed for a console-like experience. Runs a Hawk Point APU with its iGPU stripped out, paired with an RX 7600 GPU, iirc

I vouch for Kubuntu. It uses KDE Plasma, which is the exact same UI as SreamOS desktop mode. It's based on Ubuntu, which is a very popular distro, so there's a lot of support and apps that are packaged for it

It's not even about narcissism. If this man gets back, he gets to talk to media about his experiences, which will likely turn a lot of people against Trump's plans. Trump's fascism is contingent on people being complacent about the things he's doing

While some see this as an academic lifeline, others view it as France capitalizing on a U.S. brain drain under anti-science policies

I don't necessarily see how these are opposing viewpoints. Both are certainly true

To give more detail: Proton uses a hacky workaround called fsync. Fsync was developed by the Wine developers but was explicitly not merged into Wine because, by their own admission, this is a really hacky workaround and it's definitely not the right way of doing things.

For games, using fsync is far better than not using anything, and so Proton uses fsync. Apparently there's recently been concern that the fsync workaround is going to become a bottleneck in modern games (not entirely sure the reasoning why), and so the Wine developers pushed for the development of NTsync, which is basically fsync if it weren't a hacky workaround. NTsync alleviates the bottleneck that fsync creates, making it more robust, less hacky, and more futureproof.

In short, don't expect any noticeable performance increases, but Proton might work more consistently and it might improve performance for future games

It's impossible because emulation technically implies that there are hardware differences between the two systems, and the PS4 is literally just a PC with a special OS. My understanding is that PS4 emulation is more like Wine than a true emulator

It doesn't run well on the steam deck, but I generally am able to get 40-50 fps. I capped GPU clock to 1200 MHz, and that seems to help a bit