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?

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I think Emudeck is available as a Flatpak, so you should be able to install it on your desktop too.

    • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      8 months ago

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

      • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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        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.

        • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
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          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
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            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 as for that might mess with how my actual package manager manages my system.

            • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
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              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.

          • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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            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
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              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
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                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.