Okami is great

Recalbox is an option

A dew months ago I built a computer with a 7600XT, I think a Sapphire, and indeed the fan would not turn on for light tasks

I’ve been playing retro games recently. Metal Slug X, Hydro Thunder, and trying to get into MGS1. Playing on either PSX or Dreamcast

A Plague Tale is a great one

Try using GoG through the Heroic Games Launcher and Proton-GE. It works really really good.

I never had much luck with Lutris either. Try Heroic games launcher. It’s fantastic with Linux and GoG

I hope it will release on GoG at some point

Why was such a place demolished?

I know of Gradius Galaxies and Iridian II

Been playing Shadow of Mordor again to tie in with Celebrimbor from Rings of Power. However, I found that RoP is terrible but the game is still great.

Been replaying Detroit: Become Human. The first time i tired playing years ago on Windows it would crash all the time. Now that I’m on Linux it runs great. I just beat the game amd have to say that it is an absolute masterpiece. So many options to choose from but at least from what I choose the story held together flawlessly.

Since you’re talking about ownership, remember that most “purchases” via Steam have DRM in them. If you really want to own your library then purchase from GoG and have your games downloaded to an external harddrive. You can easily access your GoG library via Heroic on Linux.