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?
For that, you might want to install something like Mint with XFCE, Kubuntu apparently, Ubuntu MATE, Feren OS, Xubuntu, and Fedora (I’d recommend XFCE for that). These are not specifically atomic distros (like Bazzite is), and I would recommend not using an atomic distro unless you’re not very good with Linux. I tried to find things that are very easy to install for you, hopefully, so if it helps… that’s all that matters to me.
Edit: Apparently CachyOS is also another option a lot of people are saying, so I’d recommend that too.