The Steam support rollercoaster I went through recently to unlock these games was kind of insane but also wonderful at the same time. I went back and forth for

The Steam support rollercoaster I went through recently to unlock these games was kind of insane but also wonderful at the same time. I went back and forth for an eternity with support trying to get access to an account that I no longer had email access for. When the support person finally handed over the keys to the kingdom after like 15 years of not being able to login I was ecstatic. I couldn’t believe that they basically helped me out on what really came down to the honor system. Now all these games are free. Go figure =) I’ve been reviving an old 3770k as of late, getting back into overclocking and desktop PCs in general. My goal is to build a decent little desktop side rig for compiling nerves/rpi kernels. The integrated graphics can’t do 4K, so I knew I needed an actual GPU. Getting back into this scene has been really nostalgic from the high school years. I started with a cheap RX570 that whines and cried under load like a thousand dying rats (coil whine?). So I returned that and took big green for a spin w/ a GTX 1650 from EVGA which is by no means a top dog card but it has worked really well to drive my 4K display. I fired up HL2 this weekend on Linux and played it for a few minutes. So nostalgic! The weird noises and radio crackles really hammer home the dystopian future. I can’t get the game to run full screen though (Linux problems) but it works okay in windowed mode. I don’t know how people game on Linux because despite the progress it’s still so far from being sane.