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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aren't CRT monitors actually quite nice for pixel art games? Maybe the dad just really likes his old games

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's an og quakeworld player running it in 320x200 sw@120Hz/fps. It's native on Linux since 1998, so the switch for him makes sense.

[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

But how does this old pc able to run m$ wins that needs cloud account? The most unrealistic point is m$ has empathy on old hw and their users. That's my point.