making my old laptop into a gaming laptop and need help and suggestions.

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capt.killjoy 16 Oct @ 9:21pm

I am turning my old asus Laptop into a gaming PC but my issue here is trying to figure out what kind of free OS I can use on the machine and what the capabilities would be in that general thing Right now I'm looking at Steam's free OS platform and a couple others if anybody has any suggestions or helpful keywords to use in this please feel free to send me a message on this and let me know what you think and that way I can get some helpful ideas thank you

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Bad 💀 Motha 16 Oct @ 9:33pm

How old?

Run the free app CPUZ and click Validate > Submit. Share the provided web URL in here so we can see the specs.

Win10/11 are free to use.
Plenty of Linux choices as well.

_I_ 16 Oct @ 9:43pm

depending on the laptops specs it might not be able to play games natively

worst case, build a gaming pc, and use steams remote play or moonlight or xbox cloud play for games, to stream games to it

𝔇𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔤𝔲𝔶 16 Oct @ 10:10pm

Windows is the best OS for games, always has been and always will be. Much easier to install and play games and much less issues with them.

Steam OS is pretty bad for PCs currently, especially for nvidia.

Agenda 2025 16 Oct @ 11:01pm

Linux mint. For the love of God don't use Windows because whatever memory you have Windows alone will use it all.

wing0zero 17 Oct @ 12:10am

Make a retro games machine, SNES, NeoGeo, Mega Drive ect, use a front end launcher like LaunchBox or Retrobat.

Or you could have a go with a retro OS like Batocera or Lakka.

I have a weak little Gameboy looking handheld and that runs up to PS1 so might be good up to PS2/Dreamcast on the laptop.

_I_ 17 Oct @ 12:19am

Originally posted by wing0zero:
Make a retro games machine, SNES, NeoGeo, Mega Drive ect, use a front end launcher like LaunchBox or Retrobat.

Or you could have a go with a retro OS like Batocera or Lakka.

I have a weak little Gameboy looking handheld and that runs up to PS1 so might be good up to PS2/Dreamcast on the laptop.

thats called retroarch
works with win or linux

wing0zero 17 Oct @ 12:25am

Originally posted by _I_:
Originally posted by wing0zero:
Make a retro games machine, SNES, NeoGeo, Mega Drive ect, use a front end launcher like LaunchBox or Retrobat.

Or you could have a go with a retro OS like Batocera or Lakka.

I have a weak little Gameboy looking handheld and that runs up to PS1 so might be good up to PS2/Dreamcast on the laptop.
thats called retroarch
works with win or linux

RetroArch is cool but the others are better front ends for artwork and layout and other such things.

Electric Cupcake 17 Oct @ 5:29am

Originally posted by 𝔇𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔤𝔲𝔶:
Windows is the best OS for games, always has been and always will be. Much easier to install and play games and much less issues with them.

Steam OS is pretty bad for PCs currently, especially for nvidia.

A hollow voice says "fool"

Talby 18 Oct @ 7:33am

Agree the age of the laptop is going to be the main factor - picked up a 4050 laptop for $650, plays everything I currently play at varying levels of graphics settings (most are older titles) and even handles 120/144 fps in many of them.

The 1050ti laptop it replaced was struggling to hit 60fps even set at the lowest graphics settings.