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You bet, I'm a FreeMCBoot fan myself. I bought a network adapter and a SATA adapter for an internal hard drive to load games off of.

If you have a PS2, mod it to play backups. There's a new method called MMCE that is very promising and looks very easy to setup.

https://stoneagegamer.com/memcard-pro-2-for-playstation-and-playstation-2.html

https://youtu.be/mdxDRtfEXNg?si=vAticFv6PnZTN9ER

We're forgetting that Yuzu devs had Tears of the Kingdom and released a version that could run the game before it came out commercially. And to those who were behind a donation paywall too.

The team got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and had to settle the lawsuit. They had too much cash on hand to appear like innocent homebrew developers. And how silly is it to be sharing such hot warez like AAA game leaks on a crappy platform like Discord?

They served this lawsuit to Nintendo on a platter. I've been following the emulator scene since 1998 and have no love lost for their high-priced ninja lawyer warriors. Teams deserve donations but not based on the promise that users will get an updated emulator before games even hit store shelves. The scene has to protect itself by making good decisions that avoid further legal debacles.

It's my new go-to mobile time killer. I think it works well on a touchscreen.

If Civ 7 reviews well and works on Steam Deck, I'll be tempted.

I've been a patient gamer since buying used NES games as a little kid, but I'll buy at launch every once in a while. I was a single adult with a full-time job when Mario Maker came out. I took a day off work just to play it nonstop. It was a childhood dream of mine to design and play my own levels and spent my teenage years making ROM hacks with Lunar Magic.

I still think about how great that day was, staying home all day to play. Sometimes it's nice to treat yourself.

I think it's important to consider whether existing social media platforms can even support "free speech." And how does society even define the term?

Regardless of that philosophical discussion, I don't think EFF is specifically debating the free speech principles of an average person who is acting in good faith. Social media platforms that are owned by companies like Meta allow well-founded groups to flood user feeds with bad sponsored content.

So far so good for me. I switched last week after dual booting Pop OS and Windows 10 for a few months. I used to use Mac OS X back in college and missed the interface, so Pop OS's implementation of GNOME felt good.

As for OP's question, someone else with more knowledge can answer if a specific distro has the best drivers/compatibility with games. Pop OS comes with NVIDIA drivers which works for me.

I also wanted a full desktop OS. Some of the distros will focus on being a controller-friendly frontend for gaming rather than a desktop OS.

It might be helpful to try something like Ventoy for any distros that support a live CD. You won't be able to fully test gaming performance, but Ventoy lets you try multiple distros on one disk.

Other questions for OP: What type of GPU are you using? What is your current OS?

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My i5 6600k will turn 10 years old this year. I'm fortunate because upgrading to 32 GB should keep it running for a while still.

Hell yeah, keep chugging little guy 🤘

If Android is okay, I'd recommend the ONN 4K Pro player from Walmart (if located in the U.S.) with some privacy caveats:

• Do as little with Google: Make a throwaway login if Google requires one to get the device started up. Try to avoid Google Play Store as much as possible. If privacy from Google isn't a concern, feel free to use your Google account to download apps from the Google Play Store.
• Learn how to sideload apps: There are multiple ways to do this, like a USB drive or FTP server.
• Pick an alternate launcher: This will replace the default Android TV OS UI with one that has much more flexability and no ads. FLauncher and Projectivity are ones that I recommend to friends.

The final product is a modern streaming device with much more flexability than any other store-bought device. Building a HTPC with Linux is probably the true self hosted option. Personally, I'm able to afford some privacy sacrifices with Google for something that "just works."

I always wanted one so bad but never picked one up