[plastic bag rustling] - Now what? [laid-back music] Greetings folks and welcome
to an LGR pyramid thing. I don't really know what this project is or where it's going, where it came from. We're here and I've got a big
old glass and metal pyramid PC case from Azza, this is the 804 model. Why exactly I have this takes
a little bit of explaining so let me just set the scene for you. Late one night, the other
week or month, I don't know time keeping is elusive these days. I was just browsing the
interwebs for various things that were out there. And somehow I ended up
stumbling across a whole list of weird PC cases and just was confused. Like, what is this trend of
these absurd looking computer cases going on right now? I don't know what this design
language is even called. Reminds me of a Transformer
having knocked up a Gundam by way of Short Circuit's Johnny 5. It's a really weird design
choice and most of them happened to be coming from China, so I just started going down this rabbit hole
of odd PC cases from China and ran across this one Azza Pyramid. And [polyhedron-based chuckling]
I was immediately drawn to it because a while back, I did
this video on the weirdest PC cases of the 2000s. And there was a pyramid PC
there and there's just something about a ridiculous pyramid for a PC case that is oddly kind of appealing, kind of not like a 100% appealing. Anyway, I posted this on
the LGR Twitter I'm like, this stuff is ridiculous,
What in the world? And the response was pretty nuts. So many of you were just like, "okay that pyramid is
unironically awesome." And really I was already
halfway there to agreeing with that sentiment. The more I thought about it more I'm like, "I gotta have the pyramid." I bought the stupid pyramid
and here it is, it showed up and it's a lot, a lot larger
than I thought it would be. Apparently they do have a
smaller version available but I got the 804V, which is
rather huge and was packaged in some rather intriguing
design in terms of a packaging design of intrigue. Check it out, this thing,
it is ridiculously heavy tempered glass and metal,
but it's just a lot bigger than I thought it would be
in terms of the overall base. It takes up so much room,
just about as much as like a 17-inch CRT honestly. But I gotta say the more
I looked at it the more I really enjoyed the aesthetic. It's just so different
than any other PC case I've ever owned, and you just
don't see too many pyramids. I know some folks have built
their own pyramid PC cases, I've seen some other pyramid
PC cases but this one, it's got a look to it that
I'm rather appreciative of. I also appreciate the fact
that it's a little easier to work on, or at least access
the internals than I thought. It's got four screws that are
holding it down on the bottom. Then you pull those out,
they're spring loaded they stay in the bottom
of the case, and you pull the entire top of the
pyramid off of there. I was thinking maybe you'd
have to take the individual tempered glass panels
off, slide some parts off and it'd keep it on there, nope. The whole top just comes
off and you're left with the steel frame. I'm assuming it's steel, I
don't know, it's pretty hefty which allows you pretty open
access to everything in there. You've got a horizontal
mounting motherboard area in the middle with six
slots for expansion cards and other I/O and down beneath
in the middle there's an area for the power supply, a mount for SSDs and three and a half inch hard disks. And of course up top there
is an RGB 120 millimeter fun installed ready to go. And at this point I honestly didn't know what I was gonna put in here. I'm just like, I got this
pyramid, so now what? I really just bought the pyramid 'cause it was calling to me. What am I gonna put in here? I did a poll really quick, just be like do I put something new? Do I put something old? Do I just fill it with another pyramid? No surprised that the
'other pyramid' option won 'cause the joke options
always win in polls. It was kind of a mix between
old and new in terms of the hardware I should
put in there according to y'all suggestion. I thought, "maybe I'll just
put something in between." So here's what I came up with
and this is an intriguing option from ASUS. This is a business
motherboard, their Pro H410M-C motherboard for businesses and industrial situations and such. And this really appealed to
me because there is a type of motherboard that
occasionally gets some interest among retro kind of PC folks. Because it's brand new hardware
that accepts new processors and PCI express and such,
but it also has a bunch of legacy support built in. MSI is a company in
particular that does this. I get emails every so often
about these MSI motherboards for industrial and business situations. But the thing is, it also has classic PCI, a bunch of slots for
that as well as things like serial and VGA and
sometimes even parallel built in. And there were even some
of them with ISA slots, a 16 bit ISA down there at the very bottom that really long slot. Again, this is built for
business industrial situations where they need backwards
compatibility for legacy support of older hardware and
software that's still running in certain facilities. But for me and other retro
computer types we're definitely interested in inserting
older expansion cards, sound cards, video cards,
that kind of thing. And so I wasn't able to track
down one of those MSI boards, I saw this H410M with
an LGA 1200 CPU socket. I had never heard of that,
I don't really keep super up to date on the Intel things. But that's what this
comes with, and apparently that only released in quarter two of 2020. So that right there intrigued
me but I am very much attracted to the fact that
it has PCI slots built in right in between the
PCI Express x1 and x16. As well as a rather appealing
I/O section around here. You've got individual PS/2
ports for keyboard and mouse it's not this combination
thing you might see on some boards, this is dedicated. You also got USB 2.0, VGA, DVI, HTMI as well as RS-232 serial. A bunch of things that you
don't really see integrated on many mainstream boards
anymore as well as some fascinating headers on the motherboard. I was hoping to find something
with a floppy header. This one doesn't have that unfortunately but it does have headers for
Cam 2 as well as LPT:One. You got parallel built
right into the motherboard that's pretty neat. So even though there is no
parallel around the I/O section on the board itself, you
can plug in this header here with one of these
little breakout cables. And then this'll supply
a parallel interface that you can put into
one of the slots around the back of the pyramid,
which just adds to the kind of mix of old and new that
I was going for here. We'll get to some more
stuff later in terms of what we can put into those PCI slots. Another thing I was wanting
to add was a traditional PC Cone speaker. There's a header for that
on the motherboard as well so we'll be able to plug that in. It doesn't have any built in PC speaker otherwise, so that's nice. And in keeping with the somewhat
retro totally modern theme, I'm going with an Intel Pentium CPU. This is the Pentium Gold,
this a range I didn't even know existed until making this video. But the G-6,400, this is an LGA 1200 I keep on to say LGR 1200,
but SRH3Y is the model number. It's a four gigahertz dual core CPU. And it did come with its own cooling, but that looked boring. And you know what? I was inspired by the pyramid. What goes better with a
pyramid than an RGB UFO? This is a Cooler Master, MasterAir G100M low profile CPU cooler. The low profile doesn't
matter we got plenty of space in there, but this
thing looked interesting. I normally don't go with RGB
and all that kind of stuff, but there's something
about this glass pyramid that just makes me think,
"let's go all out." Let's just fill it with
all sorts of colors and weird shapes and such. A metal and RGB UFO with a
side of like 1950s, 1960s oscillating fun aesthetic. It just looks neat, I like it. in terms of the Ram,
I'm not going too crazy. Just something that'll look
cool and not cost too much was the real idea. It's got some course air
vengeance Pro DDR 416 gigs 2666 Megahertz, and that's what that is. I am mostly again, just kinda
grabbed it 'cause I thought it might look neat inside
of a glass pyramid. Why not make it look flashy? And in terms of storage,
it does have in that too, in VME on the motherboard itself. So using this Samsung
950 PRO stick that I had from a previous build 256
gigs will be plenty of space for my purposes here. And now for some of the
more interesting selections potentially some older PCI
cards starting with a sound card a creative labs, Sound Blaster Live. With my thinking here being
that I might be able to disable the onboard sound chip on the motherboard and then just use this
instead with an older windows operating system. I don't know if it's a dumb
idea or not, I've never tried it and I've just been
curious to see what some of these newer motherboards
can do in terms of working with older PCI cards and a sound card. Seem like a fun place to start. And the same goes for a video card and no, I don't have AGP on this motherboard. so we're stuck with PCI if
we wanna use something old. And this one's about
20 years old this is an ATI Radeon based card, a Radeon 7000, a 32 megabyte PCI GPU. My first impulse was to put
something like a 3dfx Voodoo card in here, like a three four or five, but of all of those that I've
come across over the years, none of them have been PCI. I had one back in the
day, but all the ones I currently have are AGP. So I decided to use something
else and that ended up being this one that I had new in box, sold and branded by
Diamond as the Stealth S60 this one being sold in stores in 2008 but the tech goes back to 2000, 2001 My thinking was with the
Sound Blaster Live, PCI slots and this, maybe do a windows
XP or late windows 98 build with some of these parts. I don't know if it'll
work, but let's try it. And lastly, we've got the
power supply and this is rather boring and not much to talk
about here, except that it is a 550 Watt EVGA and
was one that is fully modular 'cause I don't want a ton
of cables hanging around inside my pyramid, nobody wants
cables inside their pyramid. You're only supposed to have
like flesh-eating beetles and mummies and magic and
Illuminati or something I don't know whatever pyramids do. But you don't want a bunch of cables. That is the main assortment
of parts taken care of so let's just go ahead and start getting this pyramid assembled. All righty, so the build
itself should be pretty simple it's all modern stuff, nothing
too crazy I don't think. just gonna drop the CPU down
into the LGA 1200 socket, new Pentium that is a site indeed. And clip that down in place,
I can go ahead and get the fun cooling thingy ready for the UFO. And that involves a
bracket that is actually a little bit different
than I've used before. Just in terms of it
has a few extra plastic and metal parts that go in there to adjust to different socket sizes. And then there's two metal
pieces that screw into the bottom of the fun UFO. And then there are four
of these metal thumb screwy bits that screw
right into the bracket around the back of the motherboard, and it came with some thermal paste. We'll go ahead and get that
stuck in place on the CPU, peel off the sandisfying
sticker, look at that. And then drop that in place
and get everything screwed in and it actually pulls the
fun assembly and brackets and such down into the motherboard and just pulls everything together. Of course, now that it's
in there, I'm seeing that I probably should've done
a little bit of measuring for the memory situation. 'Cause remember I had those
gigantic RGB memory modules and there's not much space
here, but whatever moving on for now to the fun situation. Just getting that plugged
in, and it's gotta couple of different connectors
here, with one four pin going to the CPU fun header
on the motherboard itself, and a bag of goodies with
a little button controller, remote type thingy that
plugs into the other four pin header where the
little pass through header in the middle of those,
and they connect up and connect to some other
power through 4 Pin Molex And there's a little
remote for controlling the RGB and the fun. Now it's onto the ROM and
as expected, [slight bang] that doesn't fit at all, not even close. I just ended up grabbing
some other memory for chip. I only went with eight gigs this time 'cause I don't need
anything more than four for what I'm thinking here. But they'll actually make
ROM any smaller than this these days, not for this motherboard. And of course no RGB which is
really don't have the physical space for it but I'll
stick some other lighting in here somewhere. After all, I gotta light up
the pyramid and do it justice. And just going to go ahead and get the SSD installed in there, in their two slot screws right on down, that is that. And I'm gonna go ahead
and power it on here and just see if everything's working. Got the PC speaker and parallel plugged in and a little power connector
for a button to turn it on, and they we go. The UFO is lit up, and we've
got a display bringing us right into the setup utility for an American Megatrends Bios. That's somewhat nostalgic, but
everything seems to be okay. All I'm gonna do here is enable some of the legacy booting options so we can try installing
Windows 98, Second Edition. I'm gonna try it on a
modern computer setup knowing full well, all of
the limitations and problems I'll probably run into with compatibility. Now you might remember a while
back, I actually did attempt some kind of similar
stuff with a Ryzen build and getting DOS to run
on there, just natively on the system and it didn't go well. So after getting fdisk going
and everything formatted and then trying to boot
from the Windows 98 CD, I was not at all surprised to see it just doesn't wanna work. With the first problem
being that it could not find any device drivers for the
CD-ROM that I had plugged in which was an external USB DVD thing. And I went through all
the different drivers that I could find, I also
tried some boot disks with CD support, I just got nothing. Although formatting
the SSD was successful. It took a long dang time,
but when I was done, we had 236 ish gigabytes free. Pretty crazy to see and DOS. So in an attempt to get around
the windows set up problem, I took the SSD back
outta there and stuck it in one of these little USB in
VME converter adapter things and copy files over directly to it. And that got me somewhere,
Windows 98 directory showed up immediately and
the setup began to run. But I ran into the
conventional memory free era. Not entirely unsurprising,
this is what happens when you try to go above a
certain amount of memory, I think is over 512
megabytes in this case. But even when I disabled the
option for the windows setup to look at Bram, it
still would not get into the setup at all. And not letting me go any further. I messed around with this
for hours, got nowhere so I moved on do Windows XP. Once again, knowing that
there are plenty of probable limitations and errors I'm
gonna have along the way, but perhaps less of them,
than with Windows 98 SE I don't know, I just had to try it. And it got to the point
of bringing up the whole ACPI compliance error. But even when I rebooted
that, disabled ACPI checks and such, it still gave a
blue screen of death error at some point in the
setup every single time. Messed around with all
this for a full day, didn't get anywhere. So you know what? Let's give a flavor of Linux a taste. After all, when it comes to
mixing old and new hardware and software and screwing
around with all sorts of things you're probably not supposed to there's not much of a
better choice out there than mess around with
one of these distros. And for this right here,
I just decided to try one I've been meaning to
try for a little while, and that is UALinux.com's
Ubuntu Game Pack. Which I just wanted to
give a shot because I like Ubuntu and desktop
systems and the game pack in particular packs of whole lotta games and other assorted things
into one handy distro that you can just install straight away and it's got all sorts
of things configured. The installation seemed to
be going off without a hitch. And then I realized, I
still need to build the rest of the computer and
stick some WiFi in here so we can get some updates and all that. Let's go ahead and do that really quick with first step, of course
being to insert the little I/O bracket thingy right here
and get that into place and then drop our crazy
looking motherboard assembly right down behind that
and get that screwed into the case itself. Which unfortunately I
could only get four screws in there, even though I
think there are six spots on the motherboard, and it
seems that this particular case doesn't have any standoffs. And in fact, not even any drilled holes to put more standoffs where
this particular motherboard would take the last two
screws down here at the bottom so it just flaps around
there a little bit. Another slightly disappointing
thing about this is I didn't realize until I
was going to plug it in, that the motherboard does
not have a header for a RGB or addressable fan colors and such. I can give the fan at the
top of the case some power but it won't actually turn
on without a fan controller, or another motherboard entirely. So I guess that's not
gonna light up either. I'm just taking a look
at the instructions here to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I found this rather
amusing, where it's talking about screwing in different
parts and cable management. The recommendation is managing
the cables by hiding them. That's cable management,
so sure we'll do that. Although there's not a whole
lot I'm gonna be able to do with some of these cables
have gotta ribbon cable for parallel and such, but let's go ahead and get the video card in place. The Radeon 7000, all 32 megabytes worth, and the lovely Sound Blaster Live. Which admittedly is not
as big of a deal anymore so I was really wanting
to use it with Windows 98 so I could get some compatibility going on with different games for Windows and DOS, but maybe it'll be cool in
Linux as well we'll try it. And with everything in place,
that is a really pleasing selection of I/O just seeing
parallel and VGA and serial and all these things all
together, I'm a sucker for ports. And then of course we gonna
get the power supply in here and it goes underneath everything,
and in order to do that, you're gonna have to
take apart some stuff. And I was kicking myself thinking "was I not supposed to put
the motherboard in yet?" But no, it's not that stupid. You actually just have to
flip the pyramid on its side and then get to the
bottom here and just undo this whole bracket metal
cage base situation, and then get the power
supply screwed into that. Now this does mean more limited access to the power supplies cables
once it's all in there. But once it's in there it's a pretty tidy looking solution on the outside. And just don't think
about, setting things up because that part was a bit of a pain just getting all of that
cables and wiring, just strung through these little openings and trying to fit things in there. Not really being able to access the rear of the power supply. Just a little bit annoying but
so it goes. The price you pay for a big old PC pyramid, I guess. All right everything's
pretty much hooked up let's see if we get a
video and sound going in. Hey, there we go and we'll go
ahead ahead and get the USB stick with the Linux installation stuff ready to go once again and
let that install and connect to the internet, update itself
and get drivers and software and whatever else it needs to make this hardware to do its thing. And I just had to take a moment
to admire the monstrosity of a computer [laughing]
we've put to together up to this point. It has got a WiFi dongle up
top, a PC speaker hanging around, just wires and
cables, the pyramid. It's so stupid and I am really amused by absolutely all of it. That being said though, once
it had finished installing and I had it logged in
to some of my services, it was immediately apparent that things were running very slowly. And checking out things in
CPU-X, everything was configured. It was seeing it all:
processor, motherboard, memory, all of that, and of course the graphics it discovered the RV100
chipset on the Radeon 7000. And I made sure to disable
things like animations and fractional scaling
other stuff that might slow down the UI, but things
were still just really slow. I just decided to try out Half-Life see how that did at 640x480 with HD models and other update type of stuff turned off. As you can see, it's
running like total garbage. Granted, I know that this
is the updated version of Half-Life that's been
tweaked a whole bunch over the years and it's just
whatever's on Steam right now. So it's not an original one
that you'd have gotten in 1998, but even still this is
running a whole lot slower than I thought it would,
for a 32 Megabyte PCI GPU a Radeon 7000. Frame rate is terrible and the
input lag is off the charts. Like it takes 10 seconds
for things to react and it really freaked
out the tram ride here and made Gordon hop out the back. So that's a thing [laughing] And of course YouTube was
basically unwatchable. It's a 32 megabyte PCI
GPU, but still. As capable as the rest of the system
was, somehow I was hoping that it'd be a little better than this. An even more extreme case
was something like solitaire here and it's just laughably bad. I know it's relying on
some GPU acceleration and everything to move around these cards, but it's still worse than I thought. And again, to drive the point
home, just look at DOSBox running something as simple to
emulate as Jill of the Jungle it'll play, but it's
gonna protest the fact that it's having to do so. And there's a lotta
slowdown and just choppiness all the way through at certain points. [intermittently choppy AdLib music] So while I'm sure there's
a massive variety of tweaks and different drivers
and software situations that I could go messing around with, I don't wanna do that right now. I just wanna see if maybe
it was the operating system or the distro that I was using. I'm gonna try Xubuntu which
is a much more lightweight version of basically
what I was just using. It just doesn't have all the game stuff pre-installed and that's fine, I can install it myself if I want to. I just want to see if this
makes any difference at all. And it absolutely did. It's a whole lot worse
now! [laughing] it's so bad I can't even get Steam
to do its thing properly. There was all sorts of garbled
textures and corruption, just white blocks all over the screen. It took like five minutes to
get Half-Life to even open. And then when it did it
wouldn't run, it brought up a bunch of Eras and the
game itself never actually started It just froze the system. Honestly, I'm just not familiar
enough with this particular video card, this version
of Linux, its drivers, the motherboard itself. the way its PCI bus might be configured in the BIOS. There's a lot to troubleshoot
in terms of performance here and in the end, we're
talking 366 Megahertz of memory speed and 183
Megahertz core clock speed on that Radeon 7000. I just don't think it's cut out
for running a modern version of Linux, or any other modern OS. It'd be one thing if I was
using it on a Windows 98 machine to play 1998 era games,
Half-Life in its original form would be perfectly fine on this card. But I was trying to push it a bit far, just to show that I was
curious in terms of maybe if I could benchmark the
two together just to show how wide of a gulf we're talking. And I did find this
PassMark benchmark they ran G3D on both the Intel and the Radeon 7000, which got a score of four
by the way [laughing] Video cards have come a ways in 20 years. It's been a fascinating couple
of days of experimentation but I'm gonna go ahead
and remove the Radeon and just stick with the
Intel chipset for now. I mean dang, we're almost 25
minutes in and I haven't even played any games yet. I'm also taking out the Sound
Blaster card while I'm at it, which worked perfectly fine by the way, both alongside the Radeon and without. I tried both cards on
their own to make sure one wasn't slowing down
the other or something, but there was no difference. So again, for now, the
motherboard will do the trick. And even though I'm not taking
advantage of the PCI slots at the moment, there's still plenty of fun to be had until I can. Who's staying to finish up the build here it's just a little bit
left in a copious quantity of extraneous RGB lighting
is what I'm thinking. I grabbed one of those
cheap pre-wired LED strips that's powered by USB, then strung around the edges of the pyramid base right behind where the bottom metal
parts go, and wind it through the middle of
the cable mess inside and then around to the
back, so it makes a loop around the whole thing. I got to say, this is looking
spectacularly over the top. Perhaps it's not your style. I'm not even sure it's my
style, but it is eye catching with all those built in RGB, animations and rainbow patterns and
what not. Any other PC case, ah probably not so much. But this pointy pyramid, I dig it so let's have some fun with it. Starting with the serial port
which lets you use plenty of old peripherals without
needing any USB adapters or additional software. So you wanna use this old
Microsoft two button serial mouse on a modern system?
We just gotta plug it and then enable serial input devices here since Ubuntu apparently
disables that by default now and whatever a line in the
terminal takes care of that. And now we're able to
natively use compatible input devices going
back to the early 1980s. Plus there are the multitude
of null modem cables and other connections and
programs that allow direct communication with old computers
and devices of all kinds. A serial port is just nice
to have for stuff like this. Same with parallel, where we can plug in all kinds of things from Zip
drives and tape backup systems to dot matrix printers and whatever other peripherals use parallel. Printing to fan fold tractor feed paper on a dot matrix printer
through a ridiculous pyramid PC is my idea of a good time. Like sure, USB dot matrix
printers are a thing but why bother with
that newfangled nonsense when you've got the connection built in? And this is Linux, so we can
do whatever the nuts we want in terms of emulation, source
ports in general retro gaming. As a result, I've been a
fan of Wine for years -- the program, drinking is
whatever -- but Wine is awesome in how versatile it is
for getting older PC games to work that would otherwise
be an absolute pain to get going on modern Windows. Whether they've got original
disks, downloads from GOG or shady cracked executables,
it doesn't really care. There's a chance that Wine
or a GUI like PlayOnLinux can make it happen. I also recently discovered
that Lutris is a thing which makes the process of
making PC games playable through Wine an absolute breeze. It takes care of multi-step installers applies fan made patches,
converts to CD audio to music files and
reconfigures things as needed to make installing and
playing certain games and other Windows programs
a pretty painless process. Steam is of course another
option with thousands of native Linux games
to choose from nowadays and valves own Proton
tool for playing supported Windows games right out of the gate. Again, you know this and
Lutris, I had no idea this was a thing until making this video. I got pretty excited,
just start playing around for a couple of days,
this stuff is awesome. And then there's the whole emulation Scene console and arcade games. And if you're comfortable with RetroPie there's an x86 version available, that does just about all the same awesomeness you'd expect
on a Raspberry Pi, just on an Intel CPU. PlayStation games are my
absolute weakness here and the pyramid runs them beautifully but this supports a
crazy number of systems and custom UIs to make
sorting through emulators and scraping game data that
much more easy and enjoyable. And being Linux, practically
every source port under the sun will work on
it in some form or another. And for me that usually
means EDuke32 before long because of course! If
it's a computer system I can run Duke of 3D on, well then it's automatically an
awesome machine in my book. This has been fun. I still
wish I was able to make better use of those PCI slots,
since that's half the reason I chose this motherboard,
but at least the pyramid itself looks unique, all
glowing with animated lighting and whatnot. I think it would have
been a different story if I'd been able to get Windows
98 or XP working on here or better knew what to do with
open source operating systems so that it could take better
advantage of those cards I was trying to install. But it's possible the PCI
bus and this particular mainboard isn't configured
for that kind of usage. And in that case, you
win some, you lose some. For me it's really been
a learning experience that's highlighted some
areas that I'm admittedly a bit short on in regards to knowledge. And I've kinda run out
of time at the moment to keep experimenting, at
least for this video, so. If you got any idea on
how to improve this, leave a comment with your
thoughts, and just generally any thoughts on the Pointy
Pentium Pyramid PC overall. Like I said, I've grown rather
fond of this monstrosity to the point where I've bestowed
it with an LGR case badge and a Y2K Compliance sticker. It's just how you know that I care. I know the whole thing
looks like a Bass Pro Shop, or The Louvre Pyramid, or
the Luxor hotel or whatever, insert Illuminati, alien power
generator references here. But that's what made this
case so unusually appealing that one late night however long ago. It's a pyramid, it's a PC. And now it's running a
penguin operating system and seriously, none of this was planned. That's just what I've
been doing for the past couple of weeks. So
even if the destination wasn't the most meaningful in the end I hope that you enjoyed
the journey getting here. And if so, perhaps check
out my other videos on various computery things. I upload different stuff
each week right here on LGR. And as always, thank you
very much for watching!
This was a nice suprise! Clint had talked about how Wine is better for retro gaming than modern Windows before but seeing him play with Linux is even cooler!
Although, those old ATI cards kind of suck on Linux. Badly. Glad he still played with the iGPU in the end.
He's pinned a comment asking if we want to see VFIO/PCI Passthrough of his legacy hardware to an old Windows guest VM. Go let him know how you'd feel about that. ;)
Isn’t this from an LTT video?
I love LGR, it's so awesome to see Linux featured in his video (it was a really nice surprise, I wasn't expecting it).
Going all retro you might as well throw down a fancy CRT with that setup lol
Wicked bro