how badly would i regret buying a $100 "gaming PC" on alibaba lol

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

how badly would i regret buying a $100 "gaming PC" on alibaba lol

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@aeva Depends on your goal.

Are you trying to create a baseline "minimal capabilities" platform to make sure your game runs fine on something that isn't a $5K battlestation with a 30K DPI mouse and overclocked liquid cooled gerbil processing unit?

if so, it's probably not a bad choice although your local thrift shop or craigslist would probably be better.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@azonenberg i'm trying to hand a friend a ball of linux that can compile mollytime and all of its dependencies in under 45 minutes, ideally significantly so

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@aeva "ball of linux" sounds like a hit of something you'd get at a hacker party

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@azonenberg @aeva

> gerbil processing unit

LOL.

[lunaphied@provably.online]

@aeva so far I've heard it's not the worst idea but the actual era of hardware can vary greatly

[mizarc@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva Might be fine if the most "gaming" you'll be doing is playing Half Life 2 at minimum settings, that is if a PC even shows up at your door instead of a brick.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mizarc mostly i was thinking of playing LLVM on it

[mizarc@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva Well if we disregard any speed constraints, I guess any x86 or ARM based PC made in the past 2 decades should have the capability to compile. You might regret having to sit around for 20 minutes to load a hello world though.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mizarc has to be better that the molasses slow vm my friend is currently using

[mizarc@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva i guess the funniest thing you can do is roll that hundred on a "gaming PC" and find out then

[kojack@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva A Raspberry Pi or similar would be a safer bet for a linux box that should run mollytime, I'd guess.

I generally trust Aliexpress for things like arduinos, but I'd be very wary of anything like a PC. Just look at how many huge multi terabyte flash drives for a few dollars they sell (all fake).