My Raspberry Pi beats my Switch for one reason
…While the Raspberry Pi’s low power consumption makes it great for running games designed for arcades, handhelds, and old home consoles, its utility drops off pretty quickly once I pivot to…
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Who wants a handheld that's priced like a laptop?
Cost is a major consideration when it comes to handhelds, and to pretend otherwise would be folly. In the aspect of pricing, Steam Deck OLED continues to decisively pull ahead of the competitors, and there's a special reason for this, which I have talked extensively about in the past. Valve has an ability to sell its handhelds at cost because of a structural advantage that no other handheld manufacturer does. Unlike ASUS or Lenovo, Valve isn't primarily in the hardware business. As a storefront operator collecting a commission on every purchase made through Steam, Valve can afford to price har
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Your old Nintendo 64 games are finally getting unofficial PC ports, and they run better than emulators
…But Ocarina of Time running natively at 90Hz on a handheld in 2026, off a project nobody got paid to build, is one of those things that most people never think of…
Linux just made 8GB VRAM feel like enough for the Steam Machine
…Now, this won't magically transform shared-memory devices like the Steam Deck or other handhelds, since the VRAM and system memory in those devices exist in a unified pool. For a…
I didn’t expect this GPU-powered SNES emulator to make 16-bit games look this good
…Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account I'm not quite old enough to have the same level of appreciation for the 16…
The M64 reminds me why I love the Nintendo 64, flaws and all
…Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account Aside from the classic, handheld Game Boy, the Nintendo 64 (N64) is my favorite video game…
I almost bought a used Nvidia Tesla GPU for my home lab, then I read what owners actually deal with
…Proxmox 8 ships with newer kernels (6.5, 6.8, and onward depending on point release), but NVIDIA's vGPU host drivers historically lag behind, and older versions refuse to compile cleanly…
Windows won the desktop by being compatible with everything, but that's starting to look like a drawback
…When you restart, the operating system 'swaps tracks' from the old system files to the new ones, which is a lot more reliable than updating system files directly. Immutable means that nothing…
I ditched streaming for physical media, and now I watch more than ever
…With my much more limited physical library, I'm rewatching and revisiting old favorites — and enjoying the experience a lot more than I do when firing up whatever flavor of the week…
SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows
…Valve wanted to release a handheld console not too unlike the Switch, but for PC gaming. To do that, they needed an operating system. And while they could have just slapped Windows…
I tried playing PC games on my phone, and the only thing that worked was a community rebuild of the most controversial app in the scene
…it was on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 with the older Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, instead. Oh, and I had to use a community rebuild of a closed app that has…