Linux distro designed for emulation?

submitted by Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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I have a laptop that I want to turn into a dedicated retro console and arcade emulation rig. I know there are things like RetroPie for raspi, are there any similar flavors for amd64? I'm basically looking for a similar "one stop shop" UI experience.

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Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech

Oh my friend, let me introduce you to Batocera

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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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Lakka is the official Linux distribution of RetroArch and libretro. It's built on LibreELEC.

https://lakka.tv/

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Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de

As far as I know RetroPie also has x64 images.

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GustavoM@lemmy.world

It could be (pretty much) any distro you want -- considering scripts like armbian-gaming exists and can give you a "one stop shop" experience.

Why running scripts like these instead of downloading the "real thing"? When you have "obscure"/unsupported sbcs and you need to "make your own" version of it.

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Cyborganism@lemmy.ca

What about Bazzite? It comes with tons of stuff for gaming out of the box including tools to install and manage emulators and roms.

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