Lutris communicates with GoG through their API, which is heavily throttled for downloading games. CP2077 was going to take almost an entire day to install using Lutris alone.

Going to the website and downloading the pieces myself was much faster, but then of course I needed to manage the rest of the install.

Small games are fine since you won’t feel as much pain on the download step.

Lutris downloads files from GoG using their API, which has heavily throttled download speeds. It was going to take 19 hours for CP2077 to download using Lutris.

Downloading the 50 pieces individually from GoG through the browser took under and hour, but was quite annoying.

If you don’t play any large games, you might not have noticed, but Lutris and GoG do not work very well together.

I love having to individually download all 50 parts to a game and write my own install script (the GOG experience on Linux).

Lower loss in general means fewer repeaters, and repeaters always add latency.

For this cable specifically, the optical signal spends significant time traveling through air, which has a lower index of refraction (higher signal speed) than the solid-glass cables in common use.

The article abstract claims a 45% improvement in signal speed, which would reduce latency over longer distances simply because the information arrives sooner.

They said they would wait until there was a meaningful increase in the power or efficiency they could get out of the form-factor.

The OG deck launched 3.5 years ago, and since then not much has changed. The steam deck GPU has 1.6 TFlop of FP32 compute at 15W. AMD’s newest low-power APUs have 2.3 TFlop of FP32 at 28W - nearly double the power for a <50% theoretical performance gain.

A semi-custom APU (that removes the useless AI engine) would compare more favorably, but we are still talking about maybe 20% more performance, not exactly game changing for the cost.