I was an avid single player gamer a long long time ago (15+ years) and the recent Quake II remaster sparked the nostalgia in me and now I want start playing all my favorite classic games (StarCraft, Diablo II, Quake 2 and 3, Battlefield 2, etc.) again.
The problem is I mostly have old hardware. My old HP laptop running Arch just died recently and my old MSI laptop running Mint that I use as a media player connected to my tv is too slow to run games properly.
So I was thinking of buying one of those mini PCs or compact desktops that run around $200-$250 to dual boot Windows (don’t wanna waste the free license if it comes with it) and Linux and use it as a gaming machine. I’m so behind with pc specs nowadays so I wanted to ask the community for recommendations. I’ll be playing mostly the classic games above and their remastered versions so I don’t really need a top of the line machine, just something decent that isn’t too far behind and can still run some current games if I ever find anything new interesting.
Any suggestions please? Thanks!
64 GiB refurbished Steam Deck is 320$.
Thanks. I forgot to mention I prefer to play on a proper pc/laptop as I never really got into console gaming. But I’ll check it out!
You plug it into a dock with a good monitor, keyboard and mouse, and you have a decent desktop experience going.
It’s not a console, exactly, and it isn’t a PC, either. It’s a hybrid you can connect to a TV or monitor and it will work with your old PC games. I’d see if anyone I knew had one to have a look. But, then again, nothing beats a hunk of junk that still works at a yard sale. I love finding stuff like that.