It’s ultimately your decision, but I’d recommend waiting for the next update…
Since the current stable release is already seven months old (thanks to the rewrite).
One advantage of RetroDECK is its isolation: everything lives in a single location, making installation and removal quite easy.
EmuDeck provides features that we don’t, and vice versa. The two projects have other goals and visions from each other.
RetroDECK
We are using: python, bash and Godot.
It’s a All-In-One Retro Gaming platform in a flatpak.
Now that is cool!
Nice, props to the Heroic Team!
Bazzite, Aurora, Proxmox and Ubuntu Server.
We hope to one day in the far far future implement ares as well. As we know some people don’t like RetroArch.
But we rather focus on new systems first before adding alternatives.
All we need is more developers xD
RetroDECK does not delete any save states, they should all be there under retrodeck/states/
There where some bugs in RetroArch we have addressed in 0.9.1b that might have caused the menu option to disappear in RetroArch.
How ever save states are not a safe long term saving method as cores or emulators updates they might break compability with old states.
Always use in-game saves as your default saving method and states as temporary backups.
As 0.8.3b did not fix the issue for all users we will do a minor patch of 0.8.4b that should move the folders correctly to retrodeck/ES-DE/ and force set the correct path in ES_Config.
The 0.8.0b branch is still on the old manifest and it is a bit unwieldy to debug and we are making changes to our testing routines and the tester user program.
In some more positive news for @everyone. As soon as we got this fixed we will post our blogpost for August detailing some of the work we have done during the summertime (the new manifest).
How about Gitea?
I agree, mistakes and vulnerabilites happen in all software commercial and open. Now I can only speak for RetroDECK but, we also make mistakes and need to do minor patches to fix those.
I think Jorge and the team handled it as you should: Be transparent, inform on all channels they can and learn from your mistakes.
Me personally have full confidence in them.
Those that try to hide or shift blame of mistakes are a bigger red flag in my book.
Jorge, Kyle and the others over at ublue is doing a great job with their Fedora spins.
I run Bazzite on all my computers and if you got a full AMD system you can even get full gamemode running by installing the deck image. This in turn give you the best controller experience for games, as Desktop Steam got several issues with Steam Input valve have not fixed yet.
But not all credit should go to them for this but also ChimeraOS team, Nobara and others that are constantly working on an improved gaming experience on Linux.
When developing RetroDECK Steam Input profiles I mainly use the Steam Deck with SteamOS and Bazzite on my desktop to test them.
All I can do is speak for ourselves.
RetroDECK has explicit rules against contacting upstream projects for support issues, and those rules have always been in place.
Our support is internal, and if we discover something that appears to be an upstream bug, we report it directly to the upstream team not through a user proxy.
We have been very vocal about this policy within our community.
It’s also important to remind users that RetroDECK doesn’t make the games run; the built‑in emulators, engines, and systems do. Therefore, we encourage our users to donate to those upstream projects rather than to us.