this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
60 points (96.9% liked)

RetroGaming

19459 readers
308 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
60
Best distro for linux gaming? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Unsure if this is the place to ask or not but figured it was closest to it.

Basically I am looking to make an AIO retro gaming PC. Main goal is to have one simple box hooked up to the TV so my friends and I can game without having to swap discs and consoles all the time. Would probably use mostly DS3 (or 4?) controllers hooked up with USB or via BT.

I know lemmy doesn't much care about piracy but this is all just to play games/consoles we legally own. Would include PS1-3, Nintendo, SNES, N64, Gamecube (think that is all we have).

I think https://batocera.org/ has been mentioned, Lakka (maybe this is more for pis?), and EmuDeck has been mentioned. Basically looking for the easiest distro to throw on a PC with a nice UI (can be launched via kb/mouse, all the same to me) that has the emulators built in and just needs the ROMs.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Garuda is literally designed as a gaming distro.

It has auto installers for retro and modern gaming (emulators, Steam, Gog, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hadn’t heard of this one. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is interesting but ran into a few issues right away. Some db lock error on update (resolved itself after a bit), could install the emulators but then they erred out. I would've liked to try a launcher (I assume one does what lakka, batocera, etc. do) but after updating I rebooted and it hung on loading the initial ramdisk.

Think I'll pass on this one but thank you for the suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A bit sad that it didn't work out for you.

I know the classic "it's worked fine for me" doesn't help.

It uses the Arch based rolling release, so give it a few weeks and try again? Or not, if you find a distro you like before then.