The Glorious Model I2 is on my wishlist to try sometime! Do you think the quality is the same or better/worse than the major brands? I’ve seen a fair number of neutral and negative reviews that are more well thought out than the typical disgruntled customer 1 star rants, so it’s tough to get a good read on it.

I don’t really have any recommendations at the moment, the last gaming PC I built has been running good for 3-4 years now so I haven’t kept up with what’s available.

What I did then was find a motherboard that had the specs I wanted and look up the compatibility of that board with Linux. Usually people will be asking for help with specific issues, or maybe just complaining about it. Sometimes the issues can be fixed with a recent kernel or a firmware update. Another option would be to read down through this list of reviews from Phoronix and see what motherboards he has reviewed that work well. From what I was seeing when I built mine, the kernel supports the motherboard chipsets just fine. It’s usually things like Ethernet/WiFi, sensors, and other things that the vendor adds to the board that will cause issues.

It works great, at least for everything I’ve tried. Newest consoles I’ve emulated are GameCube, Dreamcast, PSP. I would recommend EmuDeck as a launcher for your games, I set it up on my and my spouse’s Decks and it’s been working really well.

In my opinion the Deck is one of the nicest options for handheld emulation right now. If you play PC games as well it’s an easy recommend.

However, if you’re only doing older console games you can get one of those emulation handhelds for a fraction of the cost. I don’t want to say you should go that route, I just want to make sure you’re aware of all the options!

They’ve given up trying to make a better one and are doing a Skyrim now! 😂

Seriously though, I’m glad to see Playstation users getting the chance to play what I think is the best game in the series. I wouldn’t be upset if they just continued upgrading AOE2 with DLC for another 25 years!

Update 26 was on September 2022! Someone mentioned that on another post and I was curious.

I usually recommend pcpartpicker.com to pick out the parts themselves. I’ve used it to build a few computers, and it makes it very easy to decide what you want.

As for Linux compatibility, many things should work right out of the box. I would agree with the other person that mentioned the motherboard being the main thing to watch for. Other than that, Nvidia GPUs would be the only thing I would avoid, just because they don’t have drivers directly in the Linux kernel yet. You can install them yourself or use a distro that has them already built in, but it’s just one more thing you might need to work through.