A GEEKOM A7 with Fedora KDE and steam big picture as a separate wayland session vesa mounted to the back of a cheap monitor has become my console of choice.
Some gamescope tweaks here and there and any steam library just shines. I’ve been playing my games in chronological order from oldest to newest. It’s been a blast. FSR looks like absolutely donkey turds sometimes but makes even newer games playable if you sit far away enough. A consistent 30~40 fps on Final Fantasy XV with little to no slowdown. I never dreamed what amounts to a toy mini pc would be capable of as much as it does. Gamescope, gamemode, mangohud, not loading anything other than steam and related services on booting the thing. If I need to get work done, I use my regular session without fear of an auto-update wrecking my shit (that’s my middle finger to Windows). It’s just heaven. I’ve revisited all the Metroid and Castlevania GBA games spruced up with filter and shaders.
It’s insane. The Switch 2 doesn’t appeal to me at all since Nintendo started their witch hunt against emulation. When the console lifecycle ends and they’re no longer manufactured emulation should be the way to go. My DSi died and with it all my eShop games. I know there’s probably ways to emulate them as well as the games but that feels like too much work. Switch games might die off too eventually since people get in trouble for dumping their physical games legally. I’d rather keep gaming on PC where games I bought 12 or 15 years ago are still kicking or modded to hell. 2025 Morrowind is the nastiest lipstick on a pig situation but I’ll still go ahead and make out with that oinky doinky mess.
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball might make a comeback. Boobs crossed.