Old PC: Shuttle XPC (2002) - Windows XP Games & Linux in 2025

Finally, nine months in the making (most of that was me just doing other things), presenting a 2002-2003 Shuttle XPC Cube as a nostalgic look back on early 2000s gaming! One of my favourite machines in my collection, and my favourite thrift store computer, this little PC packs some pretty solid performance... to some extent. (It's definitely not the highest-end thing from 2003, but no slouch either! I suspect it's just that running most games at 100FPS+ has really spoiled me, and I've forgotten how games typically ran at this time period!) This video went through an actual development hell. I first teased it on Bluesky around nine months ago, when I initially started production of the video. At that time, I was in my bedroom upstairs, which you can see in earlier videos. Well, I got the basement back and had proper space again, and I shot more of the video down here. Then, I decided that I didn't like the scene transition, which would've been mixed into the video, so I reshot the whol