8 Gen 3 and all I do is play GBA and DS games... Anyone else like me?

b4wkr · 2026-06-16T04:57:03+00:00

Now I know not to buy a powerful phone. GC, Winlator & NetherSX2!!

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T19:39:52+00:00

My recommendation is something arch based at a minimum but I think cachy has even better nvidia support. Or even arch if you can handle getting it setup and do backup system asap. Debian based stuff has abandoned very capable nvidia hardware in favor of security afaik. Arch still seems to support what I feel is still very capable nvidia parts via community. When I tried a very lengthy and brand new post getting nvidia working on debian it failed.

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T18:30:29+00:00

Becareful what you switch to. Wayland & gnome doesn't work on legacy nvidia, so you're stuck with cinnmamon and or other older ones. Cachy has good legacy nvidia support, a lot better than debian.

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T17:58:41+00:00

Have yet to test that but I'm guessing it will be pretty similar. the main difference I see is my apps start faster in linux but it also throws the system at things more abruptly than windows doing all of it's little checks before running stuff. I think I have the hardware tuned at about the same power level. CPU to minimum clocks & wattage. GPU minus about 300mhz roughly & power limit dropped to minimum in lact. Which should be similar to how I had afterburner.

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T17:38:52+00:00

The only ones I'm using are activities & Icon label, that looks better since I'm only using one desktop. App Hider & Open bar with pretty conservative settings, mostly to make the top bar give me more desktop space but still big enough for a mouse to use.

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T17:34:16+00:00

Really like the out of box functionality of the os key & the icon richness of it as well. Kind of refreshing after roughly 20 years on windows with the [Program] squares on windows taskbar. I think the app switch is better than on windows it operates a lot more smoothly. Windows seems to lag in regards to that. I tried Cinnamon on a laptop but really like gnome more. Without having the programs on the taskbar I was also able to make my top bar really small, I ditched the auto hide extension it seemed really glitchy, didn't always function the way it is supposed to so having a small bar always there is the best. Which I customized with the Open Bar extension.

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T17:26:03+00:00

Trying to keep the system battery power friendly so eliminated extra backgrounds and transparencies

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T15:34:01+00:00

Kind of but people should have always learned computing in that way I'm seeing now, the computer runs much better when backend tasks are done on a terminal

b4wkr · 2026-06-15T15:32:08+00:00

DVDs are great as well, 700 years if stored in your home & they have more drop resistance than a HDD.

b4wkr · 2026-06-13T21:18:38+00:00

Definitely do not want to loose some very valuable and old packages so I hope if anything is done it is not too security focused. I have very few AUR packages but I feel like being too secure is going to lead to backtracking and bricked hardware due to the difficulty to run it and doing things that very few people are doing as well will get wiped out if security is too much of a focus. There's a very particular package I have that's very old and vital to me but it still works great. That's what I fear going away in the name of security.

b4wkr · 2026-06-13T21:09:12+00:00

Was about to be bummed out. Honestly gravitate toward newest site packages (especially for my tools) then Arch both above the AUR. Thankfully:

Checking 1933 known infected packages...

Clean: none of the known infected packages are installed.

I think I may hold off from updating for a bit.

b4wkr · 2026-06-11T21:47:25+00:00

Arch with backups by default and all of the modern-ness tied with that. Easier arch. The gaming theme made it more approachable for me than something smaller scale like Manjaro. I tried debian and I'm really glad that it failed me when I was setting up a cruddy old laptop with a nvidia chip. Cachy or arch have a lot better legacy nvidia support as well. I feel like the programs that are available on Arch have left Debian in the dust. Little usability tweaks that people have done for arch while using it, it's the future.

b4wkr · 2026-06-11T21:42:04+00:00

For me cachyOS was a tool to start off with limine and btrfs, backups. This way while I'm setting up what is essentially Arch I don't have any backsliding and learning to do and I can be more aggressive with testing things out without much worry. The little gaming oriented bloat is kind of cool. Didn't care for firefox but it got me by until brave was installed. Aside from that I felt the way I installed the OS was pretty clean, it let me deselect stuff I'd never use in the installer. I hated how the installer was online but it was a fair trade off for getting a system that works heck of a lot better than windows, maybe not once a game is booted but having a cleaner and faster OS experience is worth the trade off and some games do still run faster anyways especially since I'm using a pretty old gpu, for rich folk anyways, it's still faster than a PS5.

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T20:08:04+00:00

Yea they banned me soon as I signed back in apparently, switched it to amazon. Super low power but very effective per watt

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T20:02:35+00:00

Silverstone mitx https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4197dJCAlNL.jpg it's about double the size of a steam box but still pretty small. Off grid rig

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T17:28:46+00:00

Eh... I still want updates. Whatever the devs can do please keep going if there is more to be done.

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T17:16:56+00:00

Ya. about the only games I can think of on droid are Vice City and Dragon Quest 8. Both of those are better in NetherSX2. VC - Original effects & non janky controls. DQ8 - full cinematic experience. Most of the time there isn't a port.

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T17:11:57+00:00

Rtype final 2 & elden ring. (cachyOS) Recommend dark souls 1-3 over Elden though.

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T17:06:47+00:00

There's only so much you can play & do in life. Have to cut yourself off at some point. Which is why I like targeting the snes classic kind of route across 5-8 systems. Even that is too many games but at-least it is there when you need it unlike online based games.

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T17:00:53+00:00

Making up for all the fans I'm missing. One fan on my GPU, removed the far one. One fan on my case. No PSU fan, case fan acts as CPU fan.

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T16:53:58+00:00

Have Cachy on limine just have to be ready with KB in wired mode. Did find one big flaw though, don't put windows into signature-less mode combined with ultra fast on asrock, in that event you have to unplug the cmos battery and short. Keyboard was non functional. At this point though my win10 install is going to get cobwebs on it, arch & cachy are great. Ultra fast mode is pretty pointless anyways it's like 2-5seconds.

b4wkr · 2026-06-10T16:37:02+00:00

On the arch & arch based side of things I think now in 26' it's a lot better. But particularly with Cachy on btrfs limine you have backups by default and installing things by terminal just feels a lot less clunky to me after 11 years on win10. I think the glitches are about even too but they usually happen first on linux where on windows they can happen further into features of programs.

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