The AtGames Genesis Flashback is more akin to the Ferengi "Genesis Device" from Lower Decks than the original Genesis Device.
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For a while I daily drove a Purism Librem 14 with Debian's fully free kernel, and installed as few non-free packages as possible, including firmware blobs (which I didn't install any of until I decided I needed Bluetooth). My experience with gaming was generally fine.
With linux-libre you really have to buy your hardware specifically with support in mind. You're limited to Intel and non-bleeding-edge AMD graphics cards, a very small range of wifi cards, and no Bluetooth. Otherwise, video games should work as well as they would on any other computers with the same specs. Especially if you're also limiting yourself to games with free engines - I'm not aware of a single libre game that demands more than a modern Intel integrated graphics card can provide, even on high settings.
I came across a bunch of those recently, which is how I came up with the idea for this, as a parody :)
Internet horror is disappointingly un-creative. I have no idea why the weakest works (sonic.exe, anti-piracy, kill screens) always end up becoming huge trends, or why so few people try to put a significant twist on said trends.
This sounds like the Wayland compositor is crashing. Some troubleshooting steps that might help to narrow down why:
- Make sure all system packages are up to date (
sudo dnf upgrade
) - Next time this happens, run
sudo dmesg
andsudo journalctl -ab
as soon as possible and post the last 30 lines or so of the output of each here. It might help explain the cause. - If all attempts at solving the issue fail, from the gear menu on the login screen, select "GNOME on X11". This session may lose some functionality, but is less likely to crash in the same way.
of course not!