I finally separated some overkill hardware from my server rig (an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 5800X3D) and put them in their own chassi. Installed Arch, again, of course. The server got a “new” Ryzen 5700G , which apparently is a repurposed laptop APU.

A few years ago, I used to fire up my desktop environment (dwm on X11) and launch Steam from a pseudo terminal.

On my reborn gaming PC, could I skip installing a desktop environment and still play games on Steam? Will it run directly from the console like - for instance - mpv does?

The purpose would be to minimize any overhead from dwm and X11. Which sounds ridiculous now that I “say” it out loud, because it’s negligible, but still. My question still stands.

  • durinn@programming.devOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Thanks for the input! As the post says, I don’t actually have performance issues. It was more of a “is it technically possible?” type of post.

    Interesting about the gamescope solution!

    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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      1 day ago

      Ahhh got it. I thought it was a “I know this is inadvisable, but dammit I’m going to do it anyways” type of post :)