X-Box One update failure raises awkward questions about the future prospects of console hardware
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Mine is a decade old PC that I repurposed into a medis system after an upgrade that didn't have any built in wifi, I just plugged the D-Link wifi thing into a USB port and it worked. Can't stand guys who made Linux Hater part of their personality and fixated on "my sound card drivers don't work" from 15-20 years ago.
Mine is only a couple years old, but it’s far from high end outside of the huge SSD I just put in it.
If it weren’t for all the kernel anti cheat requirements of normie games, I’d feel comfortable enough handing my PC to a normie gamer and saying here you go, it’s a Steam console, use it. The Steam stuff has been that trouble-free. It’s barely more complicated than using a PS4.
For me, so far the benefits have far outweighed the tiny bit of fiddleyness. Everything in one place, no half dozen launchers all using RAM and stalking me. I haven’t installed anything this week, I turn it on and play it like a console. I’ve got some mods to try soon, but doesn’t look that bad with how each game has its own little virtual C drive. Then I will give MVP Baseball 05 a go. That game is totally unusable on Windows 10/11 and doesn’t seem to have Lutris support.
A trick I figured out with Lutris for programs that don't have a one click setup from lutris.net is that you can just add the program's setup.exe or whatever manually, use an existing prefix for a game that you know works already, install it under the prefix like any other program, change the shortcut to run the game, and it works just fine. You can use any old program you grabbed off archive.org or wherever you source your games that isn't Steam.