Linux is the only OS that respects your aging gaming hardware
…place to game on older hardware. But in the future, there's a good chance that the community will not only continue to maintain and fix support for older hardware, but will…
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For under $100, an Xbox 360 with homebrew beats almost every modern console I own
…online gaming through Xbox Live, though gaming on PC through Steam was my true first love. Its library is extensive, and by the end of its official support window, the hardware had…
Sunshine and Moonlight let me build my own game streaming service for the cost of one GPU
…While Linux gaming has come a long way, there are still games that aren't fully supported or have minor issues that can impact gameplay. These are non-issues when running Sunshine…
I turned my dusty Chromecast into a $250 smart home hub replacement
Jasmine Mannan Apr 12, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
BIOS chip capacities are changing, and its going to affect how long your PC lasts
…AMD has supported their AM4 platform for nearly a decade now , and since then, Team Red has supported eight processor families, from the original Zen architecture all the way through Zen 4…
Wi-Fi 7's MLO doesn't make your connection faster, but it makes it dramatically more reliable
…MLO is still exciting, even if not everything supports it yet While an MLO can be added as a firmware upgrade, that only matters if the hardware supports it. Consumer-level hardware…
I picked Proxmox over TrueNAS Scale for my home lab, and I'd make the same choice today
…Sign in to your XDA account When I decided to turn my old gaming rig into a home lab, I was looking to take the routes most traveled. I wanted a free…
The Orange Pi Zero 3W beats the Raspberry Pi 5 on paper, but it can't use half its own hardware
…Pairing the GPU with the VPU and the NPU gives you the backend for things like a lightweight AirPlay receiver, hardware-decoded 1080p playback, basic Vulkan games, and local ML demos. And…
Your cheap USB-C cables will fail with USB4
…Not all USB-C cables are equal Some are better than others Your home likely contains countless devices that support USB-C. Your phone, power outlets, gaming handhelds, desktop PCs, power banks…
Nvidia's RTX Spark will "reinvent the PC," giving Windows on Arm the huge boost it deserves
…support for up to 128GB of unified RAM with a 300GB/s memory bandwidth. Microsoft has also created workload profile scheduling (WPS) to optimize RTX Spark, ensuring Windows leverages all that hardware…