Subj : Re: Bake your graphics card?
To   : boraxman
From : Otto Reverse
Date : Sun Feb 20 2022 12:32:07

 bo> I just use Proton for Windows games, and most I want to play have Linux
 bo> ports.  What I miss the most is the CRT screen, THAT makes a difference,
 bo> a CRT feels retro.  I do have a couple of them.

I do a mix of Proton and dual booting. Depends on the specific title. With Valve's pending release of their new SteamOS (Arch-based and what runs their new handheld) I'm hoping 5-10 years from now dual-booting (for games at least) will be a thing of the past.

I have a 17" CRT but the thing takes up a ton of space ("back in the day" I had a 19" ViewSonic) and I'd rather a 14" or 15" at this point. But they just don't show up for sale locally.

 bo> Good idea, second hard PC's are a bit harder to find than they used to
 bo> be.  I have one or two that were picked up from the roadside years ago.

Roadside pickups haven't been a thing here (Nova Scotia) for a decade or more. The provincial government made "recycling" mandatory. The thrift shops avoided them like the plague after that as they would be responsible for recycling if a donation was unsellable. The recycling depots won't let you take anything that someone has dropped off either.  So from about 2010 or so onwards all these older PC's just ended up being shipped off to some third world nation. The thrift stores are starting to take older PC's now. Pentium 4 and up it seems. But still, there aren't many.

 bo> My newest "retro" PC is an AMD Duron 700MHz with 768M RAM, GeForce 2
 bo> graphics card and SB Awe64, running Windows 98.  It can run DOS games
 bo> just fine with sound and has a 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 inch drives.  The older
 bo> ones are 486's and an XT, but that is missing parts.

Nice. I bought a GeForce 2 online recently but it has lines and needs baking lol.  A project for another time. 

 bo> My current system will run anything after that era with Wine/Proton
 bo> which is good enough now.  I'm really only interested in older games,
 bo> not older software (I don't feel the need to run Office 2003 or eDonkey)
 bo> and for me Wine/Proton is basically the same as having that slightly
 bo> older PC because the hardware is the same.

lol, c'mon. eDonkey via Proton is a must have!

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