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EmuDeck coder pivots to hardware with Linux-based “EmuDeck Machines” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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While I think something like this makes sense, the pricing seems off. For $600 you can build a PC with a desktop GPU. If you want to make it easy to set up, you could just use an off the shelf mini-PC and preinstall everything so a non-technical user can get started without any hassle. I really hope we'll see more Steam machine like devices in the future.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

I'm super confused here...

EmuDeck is basically a collection of installer scripts that installs EmulationStation and Retroarch. It doesn't really do much else, and it's really not a good piece of software at that.

Why is this person trying to make standalone hardware?