korendian

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?

I just stumbled upon a computer on the garbage that has a GTX 970. Unsure of the cpu, but it's an MSI Z97 pc mate motherboard, so 4th or 5th gen intel. I also have a PC that my friend gave me when they moved that has an R9 290x graphics card and a gigabyte Z97x gaming motherboard. I need to plug them into see what the actual CPUs are, but they should be fairly similar, considering they both seem to be built for gaming.

Could any of this hardware be used to make a good emulation box? What do you think would be the best combo out of all of this? Just based on specs, I'm thinking the best would be the GTX 970 on the gigabyte motherboard, then just pick whichever of the two cpus are better out of the two, and max out the ram between whatever the two have. As far as software, I'm thinking I will go with batocera.

Any thoughts on this, or things I might be missing? What games could I expect to be able to emulate on this? I'm hoping for everything up to wii/xbox one/ps3. Is that a reasonable expectation?

As the title states. I really want to like and use open source maps, but it seems that whatever database they are pulling from is pretty bad and incomplete overall. You also have to put the exact name, as it is in the system, otherwise it will not come up.

Just to use a really simple and well known example, after downloading the appropriate maps for this search, if I search for "the liberty bell", the first four results are either roads or businesses near me, then the liberty bell museum in Allentown (which btw is permanently closed), and then the liberty bell center, then the liberty bell center again for some reason, and then finally the actual liberty bell itself. There are also suggestions down the list that no longer exist, such as the liberty bell pavilion. So this is clearly outdated data that is being used.

The suggested searches are also nonsense, only taking the last word into account, i.e suggesting "belles ave", "bellgrove rd", etc, rather than "liberty bell center", which would be the most logical suggestion for that search.

Why is this so bad, and what needs to happen to make it better?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52697342

I've been searching around for the right linux raft I need to jump off of the sinking microsoft ship, and I am currently considering giving Ubuntu Studio a go. My primary activities are music production and gaming, so the massive number of creative tools that are available seem like it would really level up my music production game, and possibly inspire me to try out some other creative avenues as well. It's kind of amazing to see the possibilities with all the free software out there these days.

So, does anyone use Ubuntu Studio, and do you have any tips or any things to watch out for as far as quirks? Would this be a good option as a first install, or should I go with something else?

I've been searching around for the right linux raft I need to jump off of the sinking microsoft ship, and I am currently considering giving Ubuntu Studio a go. My primary activities are music production and gaming, so the massive number of creative tools that are available seem like it would really level up my music production game, and possibly inspire me to try out some other creative avenues as well. It's kind of amazing to see the possibilities with all the free software out there these days.

So, does anyone use Ubuntu Studio, and do you have any tips or any things to watch out for as far as quirks? Would this be a good option as a first install, or should I go with something else?