Turning Your Old PC Into A Gaming Console…

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• Does it work in htpc mode with an NVIDIA rtx3070 using steam big picture mode? Does it fix Gamescope issues?

• I use regular Fedora 40 with KDE Plasma on an HP Elitedesk G3 mini as my emulation PC. It doesn't have a ton of horsepower for extreme graphics or some triple AAA games, but I'm fine with it. It plays the games that I want. I still want to do a parallel installation of Fedora on my main desktop alongside of Windows, but I've been too busy to be able to sit down and invest that sort of time in it right now. I'll get there eventually. 🙂

• I been using Bazzite, very good and rock solid! People from universal blue project are awesome 🙂

• Please make a video on turning on hardware acceleration on chromium on linux for Intel gpus and cpus.
  Make it into three parts,
  1. Amd gpu
  2. Intel gpu intel gen9+
  3. Nvidia gpu (nope)
  4. Intel gpu (old)

• If you really need a Chromium-based Browser then either use stock Chromium, a modified Chromium (like ungoogled) or some "good" FOSS Chromium-based Browser something like Brave. You chose your Poison.

  Writing this comment on Stock-Chromium, on Debian Testing by the way. 🙂

• I knew of Nobara but I run Bazzite, because I somehow missed, that Nobara has a HTPC iso with gamescope session 🤦

• Bazzite!! Should've used Bazzite not Nobara.

• My gentoo thinkpad laughing at this.

• Why not just used holo iso instead?

• 👍

• Chrome on linux is crazy 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

• But i have a 1 core APU laptop laying around 😛

• 2:30 me when I want to get into my uefi/bios lmao

• I would have used kodi with youtube addon instead of a web app

• I am very interested in doing that with an ild laptop. Sadly, the keyboard is not working properly and the on button is embedded in it, so i don't really know how to turn it on without the keyboard making false inputs

• Wirth noting that it needs to have modern vulkan support if you want an easy setup for steam gaming meaning amd gcn-based gpus and newer, nvidia maxwell – 750/900 series and newer, intel core 6th gen igpus and newer (1st gen amd gcn gpus need a kernel parameter set for it which bazzite does out of the box but not sure if nobara or any other distros does)

  Older gpus will need some tinkering to work for most games via proton if they are able to run them at all due to lack of modern vulkan (inteh core 4th/5th gen integrated , nvidia kepler – 600/700 series other than 750), or no vuikan (even older gpus)

• I love Nobara but recently I had lots of issues with it on a friends PC (with Nvidia card) within the last couple of months. Nobara updater seems to do some weird stuff. Especially in the time when the last huge nvidia driver update was and when the Nobara 40 update was kinda hold back or in beta or whatever. Had to reset lots of stuff to get it running again and since then every bigger update seems to break stuff. I'll install Bazzite on her PC next. Hopefully less tech support work for me 😀

• Is Steaming on Linux a thing?
  Prime Video is locked @1.1GB/hours 480p

• Did he really forget STEAM LINK -> "Steam to Steam Streaming" ?

  Old Laptop used as steaming your REAL PC to a TV.
  -> izi access to your normal PC Browser via "exit big picture mode"

  Also called "Wireless Display / TV" with extra steps.

• Ungoogled chromium chads rise up.

• Thank you Michael. Im looking foward to giving this a try. How do you think it holds up against things like batocera?

• But i scare of touching the bios and bricking the pc …

• Fedora's installer anaconda is light years behind Ubuntu's. I don't know why they still don't change it

• Surely the console should be the newest PC you have, given that games are some of the most demanding things on the PC platform that most people will ever use.

• love your editing, consider trying bazzite too! it has its intended for this specific use case

• Keep in mind your "old" hardware must support Vulkan as a very minimum requirement.

• steam controller would work wonder trying to scroll youtube and other stuff that is not a game

• < Bazzite

• Heyy try out the batocera Linux it's made for only playing games convert your old PC's into an gaming consoles

• I don't like nobara cause no secure boot support i think you can manually sign it

• Bazzite is better for a normal user

• bazzite is really nice too

• Chrome instead of brave or vivaldi on linux is crazy

• First

• Hi i really like watching ur video can u make video about lightweight linux distro i would be much appricieate

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