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I am coming from being a console player all my life. I love the conviency of a console, but I'm tired of all the B.S. Subscriptions, lack of exclusives, no backwards compatibly. I got a steam deck last year and I love it. I would like something more powerful though that I can plug into my TV though and game in at least 1080p with high settings. Ideally 4k with decent settings.

I am transitioning my computing to Linux and I like the look of Bazzite which is very similar to the steam desk. I would like to do a build that can replace my console. I'm thinking I should go Ryzen AMD. I'm more just wondering what components will work with a Linux build and if there are some things I should avoid. If someone has recommendations for a $1500 CAD build I would also be very interested in that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Since both consoles are AMD, go with a Ryzen/Radeon setup.

Components for a build except GPU doesn't matter because the kernel will handle the drivers for x86-64 on-board hardware and system updates will handle any others if necassry. For which CPU, memory, etc to use, it doesn't matter. The only thing I would stress is download Radeon driver from website and for chipset and various components. You may to manually download a driver for your brand of NVMe.