The last time I tried emulation on a desktop PC, whether it was Windows or Linux, I had to install each emulator separately. It was a bit of a mess.

On my Steam Deck, Emudeck made it stupid easy. Retroarch wasn’t terrible, but was a bit more irritating and buggy for me to get working. Either way, it had a bunch of emulators all in one spot so I didn’t have to go hunting for a ton of them. Are there solutions like this for Linux as well now? What about for Windows or something like a RetroPIE?

  • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    14·
    8 months ago

    It is not, you may be confusing it with retrodeck, which is solely distributed as a flatpak.

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      34·
      8 months ago

      Oh really? Boo.

      Retrodeck looks good, but the recommended install instructions were just too nutty for me: curl https://... | bash is not ok.

        • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Well that looks promising. Last time I looked into it, I was put off by a shell script that called sudo, but if it’s bound to a Flatpak, I can work with that.

          • Fermiverse@feddit.deEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            Sudo is still needed for EMUDeck afaik. This also installs the different emulators seperately.

            To much clutter imoho and I dont like sudo scripting as well.

            • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

              Ahh, yeah that’s about what I remember. Too messy for me. This sounds like it’d be better as an actual package (apt/pacman) then.

      • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
        33·
        8 months ago

        You…can just download the script and inspect it yourself before running. This cargo cult “security” advice needs to stop.

        • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          I did just that. It’s not about security. It’s about messing with my machine’s setup. I don’t want to run a bunch of rando commands that might mess with how my actual package manager manages my system.

          • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
            31·
            8 months ago

            This is quite fair, and I agree. I just hear far too often people rejecting running scripts out of hand because sOmEoNe sAiD pIpE iT tO tHe sHeLL. Usually such scripts are just using the package manager anyway.