In my case I don’t even have the choice of upgrading to OLED yet because geography (although apparently I have the option of preordering a 512GB OLED via a local retailer with a “direct import” program for 840 USD, ew), but I guess I should be thankful for that since I’ve mostly gotten over the FOMO lol.

It also helps that I’ve either found workarounds and/or just gotten used to the things the LCD model is worse at than the OLED, like for example none of my devices have OLED or HDR capable screens so I’m quite blissfully ignorant there, and I tend to play older games at lower detail settings and FPS caps so I can lower the TDP (to the point where I’ve set up all but one of my games to run at 10W or under, probably more like 7W or under even), which improves the battery life, heat and fan noise levels to the point where I’m not really bothered anymore.

Open Konsole and run the flatpak list command to see what apps are actually installed, then to uninstall stuff run flatpak remove com.app.id, replacing com.app.id with the app ID that you want to remove.

For the offline thing, when installing the game Steam will say “Singleplayer gameplay requires an active Internet connection” for such games (in that dialog box that appears showing the verified criteria and which one(s) the game fails, if any), but yeah agreed that those things should be made way more prominent.

Actually I’m not sure if disabling auto update completely would have the same effect as limiting the auto update time, but the point is to NOT have Steam automatically update because that’s the broken bit as far as shader cache updates go for whatever reason.

At least, that’s what I think the problem is, I’ve never actually tried letting it actually run automatic updates by itself anymore lol.

I used to have pretty much constant shader updates until I changed the automatic update time range to somewhere out of the way (like 6-7AM), and I haven’t seen anywhere near as many of them even when I look manually in the downloads menu, so might be worth a try if you haven’t already.

My laptop came with a Mediatek MT7921 Wi-Fi 6 chip, works fine with Wi-Fi 5 networks but is dogshit with Wi-Fi 6 networks (think <8Mbps download speed), to the point where the only solutions to it I see online are to disable its Wi-Fi 6 support via the driver and make it run only on Wi-Fi 5.

The final nail to the coffin for me is that the Linux driver for it doesn’t support disabling Wi-Fi 6 specifically (so my only recourse there is to disable 5GHz entirely and fall back to 2.4GHz, and even that works better than it did out of the box), so I tossed out the stupid thing and replaced it with an Intel AX200, never looked back since then.

My laptop before this current one also had an Intel Wi-Fi chip, and it has worked flawlessly too.

So, as far as I’m concerned Intel is either the best or at least one of the contenders for the top spot, and Mediatek should definitely be nowhere near the top.

In the case of AW2 I think it’s more of a case of diminishing returns, like say you can look at the difference between 99% and 99.9% realistic as just a 0.9% improvement, or you can look at it as a reduction from 1% to 0.1% non-realistic, where the difference there is an order of magnitude.