So, my assessment so far of rpi 3b+ as an entertainment-center/retro-emu box is: complete fail.
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I'm so sorry I recommended a device that caused such frustration. As you speculated earlier, I've only used the RPi3+Raspbian combo, never evaluated just the hardware solution in isolation. I should have made that clear. Many apologies.

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No problem. I'd been wanting to play with and evaluate the hardware for years, and a lower model would have taken even longer for me to determine unsuitable (longer compile times).
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Well what are we going to do with all that computing power that's unusable for real applications? Gaming rigs, that's what
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