One way I made it more bearable for myself is by purchasing a USB extender/extension cable, which makes plugging in and out far more convenient. Though typically, I tend to stick to one console era per day. For instance, if I feel like playing NES games, I'll most likely be playing NES games for the rest of the day.
I just took a look with the Buffalo Classic USB and certainly it is an interesting SNES inspired controller, to think it has a built in turbo button too.
Agreed having multiple controllers is a pain, especially I have to plug them in and out from time to time.
Mapping controllers on Retroarch is indeed a pain as well, especially trying to map N64 controls.
Last week I bought a N64 inspired controller from SAFFUN, tried mapping it on Retroarch. After a good 10 minutes, I gave up and went with Mupen64plus with Rosalie's Mupen GUI
Agreed, the SN/SFC30 pro are pretty decent to be used for general use. but in my case I don't know what happened and all of a sudden I also now have a 8Bitdo Pro, Ultimate and Pro 2. Talk about unplanned collection, lmao
I have not bought any retro handhelds aside from this. Pretty much use it whenever I get the chance. It is the only reason why I have not even bought a Steamdeck yet!
I loaded alot of PSX titles on this one. Mainly play JRPGS but oftentimes I end up playing games such as Command and Conquer and Warcraft 2 over and over again 😅
I had a chance to use UHD 630 for mild Linux gaming for a couple of months 5 years ago. So far it was good. Was able to Minecraft (No shaders though) with decent fps and a couple of 3d browser games such as Forward Assault (Some Counter strike like game), Tetr.io and Bemuse.
For Steam games... it was able to play 2d games great. Majority of newly released 3d games (Indie, triple A is out of the question) that time, the iGPU struggleds however.
Well I only wanted to play Skyrim at 1080p and it was able to deliver.
Also was able to play Dota and Counter Strike Global Offensive too.
I don't think the newer intel iGPUs are any better, I mean it can play 3d games fine but usually performs OK on games a generation behind or older.
The web being a PoS? Well, you're certainly right on the money there. Not only that, but it has also become the norm for web technologies to be used in creating desktop applications too.
So we're bringing the security nightmare to desktop applications, and on top of that, it devours RAM like there's no tomorrow, all for the sake of faster development.
I have been using it extensively including on Desktop. Overall I am super happy I have a cross platform Lemmy app across different platforms from desktop to mobile.
Performance wise widely depends on the site used. Some sites (notably Google ones) are notorious for implementing anti-competitive behavior, where if their website is visited other than a chromium based browser, it slows down or a functionality stops working.
I mean its the whole reason why Microsoft switch from Edge Edge HTML to Edge Chromium/Blink.
The only good reason right now if you want to stick with Chromium based browsers such as Brave is you're heavily into browser based games as currently Chromium (and it's older brother, webkit) are the ones that have the best webgl performance, Firefox can do it but not as fast as Chromium and performance impact is very noticeable
I originally did but the maintenance burden was killing me. Then last year Proton unified their subscription with VPN and Mail (also upgrading my Proton VPN only subscription to Proton plus) and from there I decided to just go all in on Proton mail. I integrated my domain to Proton mail and never looked back.
One way I made it more bearable for myself is by purchasing a USB extender/extension cable, which makes plugging in and out far more convenient. Though typically, I tend to stick to one console era per day. For instance, if I feel like playing NES games, I'll most likely be playing NES games for the rest of the day.