GAMING THE SYSTEM
With the Microsoft Xbox Series X and Sony PS5 gearing up for battle, and our living rooms acting as the arena in which the next console war will be fought, the PC is in a strange place. Yes, consoles have their advantages, and we love them dearly (you’ll have to pry the Nintendo Switch Lite from our cold, dead hands), but our beloved Linux PCs are now perfect for gaming, too.
Discrete GPUs are becoming more powerful, and PCs maintain superior flexibility over consoles – we’d like to see an Xbox run Blender – and former big exclusives such as Halo and Horizon: Zero Dawn are steadily beginning to make their way over to our desktops.
Linux Format doesn’t often do PC builds, so we’ve asked our friends at Maximum PC US to build a PC that can sit under our TVs, using a controller for a spot of living room Linux gaming. If you build this PC, we want you to be able to put your feet up, pour a tall glass of your beverage of choice, and dive into your Steam library from the comfort of your couch.
This build proved slightly more complex to assemble than we’d hoped, but that may have come down to our ham-handedness while trying to plug in tiny I/O cables inside this cramped
