This is a bit of an updated post for some hardware that sort of fell into my lap that I’m trying to decide what to do with. I found a rig on the trash that has a GTX 970 and after taking off the cooler I learned it has an i7 4790 CPU. For the time it came out, this was pretty top tier hardware, but obviously today it’s dated.
So I was thinking of doing a living room emulation build with this, for games up to wii/PS2, and maybe some older PC games as well. I was originally thinking of going with batocera, but considering I would like to do retro PC gaming as well, I’m not sure this is the best option. I don’t know if bazzite would be the best option either, since that usually focuses on modern pc gaming.
So any thoughts on the best software for this rig, for the uses I’m thinking?
It doesn’t really matter unless you install a distro that’s not using Plasma or Gnome. Just pick one of the popular distros, and you’re good to go. CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Bazzite, Garuda, you name it.
I agree. I don’t quite understand why this is even a debate. Just pick anything that looks neat and 99% of the time, it’s gonna work fine. That’s the beauty of Linux.
I fully recommend Cachyos. I run it on my HP z620 (Xeon e5-2667 v2, GTX 1070ti) and it’s great. Best distro I’ve used so far (30 years using Linux)