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?
It is not, you may be confusing it with retrodeck, wood is solely distributed as a flatpak.
Oh really? Boo.
Retrodeck looks good, but the recommended install instructions were just too nutty for me:
curl https://... | bash
is not ok.Install intructions for linux systems point to Flathub installation and the its :
Then
Here you see how to set it up on linux
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.
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.
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.
You…can just download the script and inspect it yourself before running. This cargo cult “security” advice needs to stop.
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.
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.
You can download and read the installer script