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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Couple reasons:

RetroDeck is a flatpak and EmuDeck is basically a script that installs a bunch of custom stuff directly and configures it. I like the flatpak ecosystem and it makes more sense to me to do it that way so it's self-contained. Seems like it'd be cleaner to remove/update/move the installation and less likely to break due to a SteamOS update

EmuDeck is working on Windows/ROG Ally support, while RetroDeck is just for Linux and dev priorities are still fully focused on the Deck

RetroDeck supports a couple fewer systems than EmuDeck, but they both cover all of the ones I care about personally.

RetroDeck is also more closely partnered with EmulationStation-DE

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

@entropicdrift is retrodeck ready for use? I haven’t really heard of it compared to emudeck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

IMO it is. They put a bunch of "oh it's still early days" kinda warnings on their github page but for me it was pretty much plug and play

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@entropicdrift i wish someone did a walk through. I don’t know much about the process involved for retro deck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did you want a video or a text walkthrough?

I used the text one. Worked great

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