Animegirl supremacist on Nostr: >want to get retroarch on my 'puter >system packages are such outdated garbage that I ...

>want to get retroarch on my 'puter
>system packages are such outdated garbage that I never even consider installing actively‐developed software from there
>compile it from source
>graphics are missing
>you also need to manually download the assets into the retroarch directory
>finally it's kind of working
>not really, you have to compile every single emulator that you intend to use individually
>almost give up again (I had tried to set it up before)
>get tired of tinkertrooning
>remember that they provide precompiled appimages and emulators
>realize that I don't need to patch them, so there is no point in tinkertrooning with the source
>just copy the contents of the appimage home into my home directory and the appimage into .local/bin
>it just works
Thank you appimage. Thank you for reading my blog post.