Sorry, to clarify, the AppImage resolves the original audio/video stuttering and crashing issue. However I’m unable to modify the es_systems.xml configuration file to point to my pre-configured ROM directories.
It appears as if the original issue is present with the AUR package when using both X11 and Wayland, though I primarily use Wayland.
Good call, AppImage works (https://www.es-de.org/) although I have a few reservations before switching over to this solution. I’ve updated the post with more information.
I have an ultrawide so I like splitting the panels WAY up. It’s just so much wasted space, otherwise. Lumping it all together in the center makes it intrusive again, but pushing everything out to the side and along the bottom are the areas that are most out of focus but still at-a-glance.
The App Launcher is set to autohide. In order to get this to work, make sure you set the Visibility for the floating panels to “Windows go below”, otherwise it stacks them out on separate rows and looks awful.
Real talk: so do I. Part of it is just being a computer nerd, part of it is working in IT, part of it has just been curiously testing Linux.
I have had more stability doing this over the course of a year than I had running the monthly Microsoft updates on Windows 10. On the rare occasions something broke (usually my own tinkering and not the update process) simply reinstalling it actually fixed the problem 90%+. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I was legit surprised and thought I would have slightly more problems with a bleeding edge distro.
As well, it’s great to be able to just update everything with one simple command on the command line rather than having each application install an updater task that sometimes sits down in the system tray doing nothing but nagging you. Or having a program prompt you for an upgrade only to take you to the download page and make you basically reinstall the app over the old version with questionable results every time …
With the Switch 2 announcement, it’s kind of clear that they aren’t even trying to be a tech company anymore. While not every last one of their consoles released was a true innovation, it did feel like something that was built into part of their brand. Now we just have the Switch 2 which is mostly what you’d expect with some decent QoL upgrades.
Nintendo is pursuing the walled garden approach. You’re barely even buying a console anymore, a lot of this hardware has more or less converged. What you’re buying is access to the cultivated ecosystem. Like everything else these days, they entice you in with the big, recognizable brands and hope there’s enough else to keep you there. Emulators straight pierce that veil and it’s why they went so hard on them.
I’m not criticizing (too heavily) the people that choose to hold on to the franchises they love, but once you step outside and choose alternatives, there’s very little to bring you back. Pokemon lost me a few gens ago, honestly not the biggest Zelda fan, and Mario alone won’t do it for me. Metroid and Starfox are scattershot … Personally I’ll stick with the Steam Deck and wait for Switch 2 emulation to roll around. And if it doesn’t, there are just so many other games to play these days.
If you’ve got Logitech, check out Piper (which is really just a GUI wrapper for libratbag). After a lot of searching, this ended up being the solution I went with.
EDIT: pulled up the link but then forgot to paste it, sorry! https://github.com/libratbag/piper
KDE is Windows 98, full of fun customizations, but unpolished in odd ways no matter what you do.
Absolutely perfect. And part of why I’ve grown to love it.
Not quite, but this did lead me to my answer, thank you.
Very confusingly, EmulationStation and ES-DE are more distinct now than you might suspect, this is a problem I keep running up against. I found my answer in the ES-DE documentation for Steam Deck/SteamOS, https://emudeck.github.io/tools/steamos/es-de/#es-de-folder-locations (note that EmulationStation uses .cfg in the format of XML I guess whereas ES-DE uses .xml files directly)
The solution was to take my currently working /usr/share/es-de/resources/systems/linux/es_systems.xml file and copy it to ~/ES-DE/custom_systems and now it looks like the AppImage has fully picked up all my systems and configurations from the AUR install so I can safely switch over. I’d still like to resolve the AUR issues, but we’ll treat that separately, I’m just happy to have a working solution right now 😊