This is the real answer. Other apps might be bottlenecked by IO so the CPU doesn’t work as hard. Get faster disks, the CPU will see more use. Since top is so small that it loads into memory almost instantly, and has no need for further IO, the CPU is free to spin all the way!
People get worked up when CPU usage is high, but unless there’s a resource leak somewhere, that just means the computer is working at full efficiency.
It would be very very arbitrary of Steam to bar a game based on the language it’s written on.
This is prety much it actually.
I did do a lot more stuff but only things specific to my personal setup, like having the games on a separate Btrfs partition which can be mounted from other OSs, that kind of stuff.
Assumin all one wants to do is install a few games from Steam, once the setup I described is done, everything is an apt install steam away.
Awesome stuff! I’m running KDE as well - can’t wait for Plasma 6 to start hitting the repos to get HDR on CP2077.
I have an even newer GPU so a more current kernel was needed. I went with testing because I prefer to follow a more up-to-date system, and it’s almost as solid as stable so I don’t see many downsides. I wouldn’t do it on a server but on the desktop I can easily work around or fix whatever minor nags appear.
I really wanted to get Mesa from experimental though as it follows upstream pretty closely (just a few days lag usually), and testing being generally closer to it probably helps. Or not, I haven’t really tested that assumption. :D
I have the non-GRE version of that GPU. It always says it’s throttling but I’ve learnt not to give that much thought. The temps are always good and frame rate doesn’t seem to suffer so it doesn’t seem to be throttled.