PC handhelds. I have a huge collection of vintage computers. Never get time. I built a new PC last year. Already spend too much time sitting at a PC.
Then i got a SteamDeck (and now a LeGo S) and im actually gaming again.
As someone who is time poor, too exhausted, its been a revelation.
Again, completely fair.
*If* you ever decide to have a play, I landed on Nobara which on page one has “install third party codecs” and their own tweaked Resolve installer.
But I get it. When you have mission critical processes, that’s simply what it is.
That’s fair. It’s funny, MS’s own Office suite you can get around, but it’s Adobe products that’s hard to get around. Although I know a lot who have moved to Resolve.
Can’t PM you. Ping me when you get a sec.
I switched to Linux last month. Very much over having their AI slop and "telemetry" rammed down my throat.
@actionretro.bsky.social - hey man, is your Classicube server still up?
"You're in so much trouble when she gets home"
.....
Promptly blew away Win 11 (didnt even boot it).
CachyOS, w' XFCE
Installed the cool "Chicago95" theme (Win 95)
Loaded up Lutris with my old-school GoG games (and a few in Steam)
Bought a little Mini-PC to play with over xmas.
I went:
Amazon
Search: Mini PC
Filter: Get it in two days
Sort: by cheapest.
Promptly ignored all the really low-end Intel Celeron-ey stuff and ended with a cheap Ryzen 5 thing.
.....
More success with CachyOS w' XFCE
But now I'm in "odd-ball Apple AMD GPU driver hell"
/sigh
Hmm - Heroic doesn't seem to like something....
Having a little more success with Lutris.
Screw it. USB audio dingle thing.
Grrr. Mac Audio.... sigh..
2011ish i think
Tried MX Linux. Nada.
Next Xubuntu Minimal...
Today's fun...
Take an old *Apple* Mac Mini
Install *Linux*
Use XFCE4 + Chicago95 theme
Use Heroic + GoG to play old *Windows* games.
This is the world I now live in /shrug
With Cachy, switching from cachy-proton to proton-ge gave me another 5fps on both Avg FPS and 1% lows
These are purely unscientific, random benchmarks, so take with a bucket of salt.
The mobo's for the i5 and R5 are both cheap-as-chips boards. A Maxsun H610 and a (very) cheap Jginyue B550 from Aliexpress. Mem is the same pair of DDR4 Corsair sticks.
Benchmarks are CS2 DE_Dust2 Benchmark
The R7 machine, the 1440p is actually 3440x1440 (ultrawide)
All installs were simple. Install the OS, set the best (and install where needed) Proton, Run.
On the i5 and R5 machines, I gotta give it to Nobara (and its what i now run on my main PC)
Playing around with some random hardware + my main PC with some Linux distros.
I'll add some commentary below...
On another note, ive finally taken the plunge and blown away Windows on my main machine.
And no, Im NOT running Arch BTW.
Ive been doing a bunch of stuff with cheap modern-ish PC hardware with a lot of Linux and Gaming stuff.
Random FB Marketplace/CEX hardware - that kinda thing.
Are ppl interested in seeing this?
I could be tempted to bust out the camera again.
Certainly wouldnt be anything flash.
big weekend ahead.
Watching the election results on YT.
Sky news 6000 watching
Channel 9, 5700
Channel 10, 2000
ABC - 40000 watching.
Say what you want about Aunty, but when it counts it's still who Australia tunes into.
More photos....
#Blokees #Transformers Action Edition G1 Optimus Prime.
Nice.
I am but a Padwan to the master @toypolloi.com
Excuse the mess, but.....
