I stopped dismissing FreeBSD after trying out its modern distros
Ayush Pande Apr 26, 2026, 5:30 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…
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A $30 desk upgrade beats any internal PC component, and I recommend it constantly
Jasmine Mannan Apr 30, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
I turned my old laptop into a retro gaming station with Batocera, and it's better (and worse) than I expected
…There's a built-in file manager, but it can only be used with a mouse and keyboard, whereas ES-DE is almost exclusively designed for controller input, which makes things feel…
I disabled frame generation in three AAA titles, and it proved some games are better off without it
…the controls, reducing the "snappiness" of movement you'd consider as absolutely essential for a game like this. This problem wasn't exclusive to my rig either. Since launch, Steam community threads…
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
…And because Proton, SteamOS, and every downstream project builds on top of Wine, those gains trickle down to everyone. Everything up until now was a workaround Esync and fsync worked, but they…
PlayStation's digital pricing got so bad that the $80 disc drive became my best purchase
…PC hardware prices have skyrocketed, to say the least, and building or upgrading a rig capable of delivering consistent ray-traced 4K 60fps experience now costs significantly more than the $700 I…
I turned my partner's old laptop into a perfectly curated retro emulation machine for free
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