There are emulators that works better as standalone, and sadly - as I love RetroArch - this is true for PS2 emulation since LRPS2 or Play! are not as good as PCSX2.

Steam Machines?

Thx for let me know, I’ll check that feature. Latest Auxio release seems to sort well album years, sadly the UI is pretty boring.

Nobara is very good for middle user that just want a ready-to-game distro; Bazzite is best for noobs, thanks to immutability; for an experienced user there are no reasons to not use Arch.

Arch. Bazzite/Nobara are for noobs (in a positive way, don’t get me wrong). Gaming is in spot where you want stability but also a rolling release, since we have daily improvements on essential packages; as an experienced user you can use Arch for that; consider also even Valve is on it with the Steam Deck (Arch-based).

If you want to learn more in depth about how Proton works I suggest you to ask here on [GloriousEggroll’s Discord](https://discord.gg/6y3BdzC.

For emulation, X360 and PS3 needs intense resources and their emulators may be in an early development state; look back to the previous generations, maybe with a cool megabezel shader on RA.

Proton is Wine with prefixes, basically, you can use it without Steam on Lutris for example (Wine-GE suggested); also, emulation for old games isn’t so demanding, try different cores for RetroArch.

You can use Flatseal for this.

Oh, I had completely forgotten about this project created with Godot, thanks for suggesting it! (edit) It seems they don’t have any flatpaks or similar at the moment, seems way behind Pegasus but also promising.

Thanks I will give it a look

There’s any flatpak? (edit) Ok there’s an AppImage. Btw looks like it can’t see my games.

Thanks for reply. Yeah would be nice to have a more complete Lutris in the future but it looks like it’s purpose is more “proprietary oriented”, supporting stores and Discord (for example). I’d like the idea of a RetroArch with non-emulated games supported, maybe with a ‘compatibility core’.

You have the option to buy some cheap thumb grip replacement. 8Bitdo Pro 2 with Xbox buttons is a great controller for Linux.

Suggestion from an old Dota player: play better games. Mobas are just competitive stuff without artistic value.

Plus Steam Controller 2

I find Clipious (Invidious) generally faster and stable (you have to be subscribed to an instance to follow channels)

Thank you

Is it unusual to use retroarch via pacman and cores via RA utility?

Are you trying to get individual Roms to appear in steam as their own games? Does your command work outside of steam?

Yes both.

Hmm…looks like in my cores directory “/home/user/.config/retroarch/cores/” I only have .info files.

I’ll try to learn more about SRM, EmuDeck was also recommended to me.

There’s a reason to prefer opus over flac?