The primary thing i've found useful is that you should pay more attention to the permissions they require. Alot of the more popular apps require tons of permissions and its kind of fucked up because they really slow down some devices, not to mention all the info they data mine from you. ALSO...
My browser is Chromium
Nah, I'm not not passing through a dedicated device through to the virtual machine, its just via the "extended features" set which allows you to enable 2D / 3D acceleration if you have the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed. You can give it up to 128MB vram, and when...
I'm on a flavor of Linux right now (Lubuntu 14.04) and for daily average use its pretty much the same as windows. The main thing I needed to install was the nvidia proprietary driver. That gave me 3d acceleration and the ability to easily configure multiple monitor desktops. When I boot up it...
Well CS Source, the CS before CS:GO really needed a GeForce 6600 or so to run halfway decently. So I doubt any PCI video card would have what it takes to run LoL and CS GO at any decent framerate. You'd probably need AGP at the very least, I think you can go up to around Radeon HD 3850 on AGP...
I played on this server a number of months before stopping a while back. It was a very good server overall and the PvP realm atleast had a very sizable (and sometimes annoying) population. It felt basically 100% like vanilla. Even though I quit playing, because I didn't want it to consume me...
Why don't you just use the dedicated ASIC in Nvidia's newer cards (if you run Nvidia) via NVENC so you can have your GPU do the transcoding instead of your CPU. With this you don't need to worry about what CPU you have or need to have a 2nd encoding machine. Obs supports NVENC now too so...
What sucks is the move also means most people aren't getting accelerated decoding / rendering through their GPU anymore. This is true also for anyone on Windows 10 and any other OS. I noticed HD videos on YouTube now seem to take up more CPU since they use an HTML5 player with the vp9 codec...
This is probably how mine would go in order from most hours to least hours
WoW - 5000+ hours
Diablo 2 - 2000-4000 hours
Warcraft 3 / Starcraft - 500-2000 hours
And then everything else a misc amount of hours. Although I haven't played WoW in years, I still do occasionally play Diablo 2.
I'm guessing most of us are old enough that we have seen most things there is to offer when it comes to video games. We need something new. I bet a completely immersive VR experience would bring back everyone's gaming passion.