Okami is great

Recalbox is an option

GL.iNet has a mesh router based on OpenWRT and supports WireGuard.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b1300/

I have the Flint 2 and like it quite a lot but don’t have experience with this other router.

I personally haven’t ever had it that difficult. My laptop has an nvidia card running mint and is dual booting with Windows with no issues. I’ve previously setup an encrypted Ubuntu on an external drive that can be loaded on any computer without issues. I’ve used Bazzite on an all AMD modern gaming powerhouse, and Kinoite on two laptops with integrated graphics with no issues. Also KDE Neon on a crappy old HP Laptop with no issues.

So you may have done something wrong in the process of installation, maybe your USB drive was corrupted, or maybe you tinkered alittle too much while not knowing exactly what you were doing.

Good points

I suggest Fedora Kinoite. An atomic version of Fedora (meaning it’s hard to mess up and easy to revert if you do manage to f things up) and it uses the Plasma desktop. The kernel is quite up-to-date and everything feels modern. I’ve transitioned a few noobs from Windows and they haven’t had any issues besides learning basics that are just different than what they are used to.

Mint with Cinnamon feels outdated and Ubuntu is a thing of the past with questionable tactics and goals.

A dew months ago I built a computer with a 7600XT, I think a Sapphire, and indeed the fan would not turn on for light tasks

That’s looks really interesting!

I’ve been looking for a decent Tetris version. I’ll give that a look. Prior to knowing this I settled for Tetris 2

Oh yeah I forgot I tried a hack of the A-Spec version. I never got far because I was having issues with the emulator. I’ll give it another shot

I’ll have to give Gold Quest a look. It seems crazy to think somebody dared to mod such a classic game

I know she doesn’t have the “M” chip, so I’d guess it’s an Intel

Oh I didn’t realize it was like that. I’ll have to re-visit my Mom’s Macbook

I’ve been playing retro games recently. Metal Slug X, Hydro Thunder, and trying to get into MGS1. Playing on either PSX or Dreamcast

I use a VPN with NewPipe, no problems. I’m using the NewPipe repo for the app

I personally enjoy that game! However, I think it’s a little too in-depth/complicated for little kids

Do you know about Donkey Kong Classics on the SNES? Is that or DK for GB more worthwhile?

Great ideas! Maybe I can non chalantly question him about shows his kids enjoy

I’ll look into that, thank you for the heads up.

Edit: Just read about the GB version and it looks great. Thanks for the suggestion!

F Zero could be good! I did remove Tekken 3 already. My picks were SoulCalibur then Virtua Fighter 2 then Tekken 3 but decided to only keep SC to minimize the amount of games