DacoTaco

It has become more complicated. You are forgetting to mention that there is now os’ running on consoles that you also need to emulate. And if you dont want to emulate that, youd need to emulate the actual hardware in more detail ( + need data dumps of consoles ) and have to emulate the chips with all its co-processors and securities. Encryption cores/engines, mmu’s, hypervisors, …

Back on the gamecube and wii days you had to emulate… The cpu, nand ( or bios ) and disc drive. All games had all information anf software contained on the disc or channel. Thats it.

And yes, ps4 was , for example, a x86 cpu. But that doesnt mean its instantly compatible with your pc. The architectures and features are completely different.
For example, ps5 has a feature that the gpu can read from the ssd without passing cpu or ram. While some pc’s can now do it too, this was long not the case.
And there are other things too ( no bios, no pch iirc, completely different os design/syscalls, … )

Insyde is a full eufi bios afaik. But fair enough, i cant comment on the intel me thing as my framework is an amd model 😅

Just wondering, what does coreboot do that the oss bios framework uses doesnt do?

Do i have news for you, youll need .net.
Either for windows stuff, or for your games ( most likely launchers )

And, you can use mainline to run bleeding edge kernels.

I run mint on my laptop and desktop, and its great. Only problem i have is that sometimes i want bleeding edge stuff besides kernel and i cant because its ubuntu/debian based and ill have to compile it myself… Which i wont