Or hacked up your own android rom because even knowing jack and shit you could.

That was the XDA forums, I never found their site very usefuly, but maybe that's just me.

seriously. their stuff now is borderline clickbait! so. many. listicles.

putting Android on the HTC HD2. Man college me wanted that phone so badly. And a lot of HTC's phones tbh

I painted my NAS red and you won’t believe the improvements

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We were using the flying toasters screensaver before you were even born

I painted my NAS red and you won’t believe the improvements

Okay this just unlocked a random memory. Back when I worked at a call center, on a slow day a lady called about a product that we no longer directly supported, and she went on a huge tangent about how everything she buys is bright red to remind her of the fires of hell. Bright red purse, bright red clothing, bright red phone, bright red computer, etc. she also told me quite a bit about a children's book series she wrote about a Christian dog

What are the kernel requirements? Is it something any random Debian user is likely to have, or do you need to be compiling it yourself?

In short, LXDE was the measured as the fastest desktop environment for gaming, while XFCE with compositor disabled came in second fastest out of the ones tested. If you need the maximum performance XFCE may be a good compromise between looks vs performance. You can use the “Disable desktop effects” option in Lutris which may reduce the overhead of the desktop environment further.

any idea how this would compare to starting steam directly from a display manager using gamescope as the compositor?

I think it's pretty well described in the article of the post

It's worth noting that the new sync implementation shouldn't cause any of the compatibility problems esync and fsync ran into, so it's a worthwhile upgrade from a stability viewpoint even if a user won't see huge performance gains.