…convenience by letting me focus on the coding and troubleshooting aspect. Well, there’s also the benefit of leaving the underlying hardware shenanigans to an external firm. But personally, I prefer self…
Ayush Pande Apr 26, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
…This gets rid of the need to troubleshoot partially updated or inconsistent states and also provides a level of reliability you don’t typically get from conventional SteamOS deployments. Session management follows…
…I was left deeply frustrated and questioning my expensive hardware investments. It turns out assembling the parts is only half the battle, because hidden BIOS settings can quietly hold back your hardware…
…After spending years ignoring them, I now see targeted driver updates as one of the most effective troubleshooting steps for keeping both new and old hardware running exactly as intended. Related 6…
…An old gaming GPU will be able to harness a hardware encoder to take on the brunt of the encoding work. Nvidia uses NVENC, and AMD uses VCE, but NVENC is the…
…Ex-enterprise hardware often has out-of-band management built in Hardware used in the datacenter have dedicated out-of-band management hardware to give you console access from the second the…
Ayush Pande May 1, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
…Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration, troubleshooting weird problems, and using open-source tools in the real world. He also works a lot with Windows…
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account When you spend any amount of time…