I made a fucking console from the ground up. I didn't do it to be easy -- I did it because I could, and now I have something unique that is amazing to use, gorgeous to look at, runs everything up to Dreamcast/Dolphin with ease. And anyone can do it with the STLs I give away.
It even supports bluetooth audio but I will admit getting that to work was the only pain point of the whole build, but mostly because my un-official build didn't have bluetooth support out of the box for audio so I needed to install the pipewire service and enable audio to the bluetooth device. Still only took a few minutes to work out.
What the fuck are you on about? I just build a Raspberry Pi based console running RetroPie with a custom cooler, fan, and power button with LED indicator. Check out my recent posts to 3D printing.
I compiled nothing but RetroPie since the Pi 5 isn't officially supported but it was dirt simple to do. Install Raspbian, clone RetroPie repo, run install script, press enter on the first option, wait a few hours.
Once again, you just suck at computing. Especially if after 15 years you still can't Bash. In 15 years I built a career as a senior linux engineer.
I once wrote a quick little scrapper that ran at midnight and would email me the listing. I think I'll have to re-write it if there's some sweet deals on hardware. Im still using my 10 year old 4k display i got for stupid cheap.
You're still beholden to the hardware manufacturers whether you buy a PC or a shitty console but at least with a PC you have choices and you're spreading your corporate money out to those you feel worth it instead of motherfucking freedom-hating Sony.
Anything but Ubuntu will be perfectly fine. There really isn't that much difference between the major distributions.