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    i cant belive i missed this all all this time x86

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      grant2258 Banned
      last edited by herb_fargus

      https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/

      I was looking at installing retropie on some deb based distro to use an old i3 laptop for retropie then i came across this gem. I know i could use any system and ill need to allow sudo ect but its a barebones system that should work right out of the box with a few tweaks. I can use lakka after being blessed with the pie :).

      Before Christmas, we released an experimental version of the desktop running on Debian for x86-based computers. We were slightly taken aback by how popular it turned out to be! This made us realise that this was something we were going to need to support going forward. We’ve decided we’re going to try to make all new desktop releases for both Pi and x86 from now on.

      The version of this we released last year was a live image that could run from a USB stick. Many people asked if we could make it permanently installable, so this version includes an installer. This uses the standard Debian install process, so it ought to work on most machines. I should stress, though, that we haven’t been able to test on every type of hardware, so there may be issues on some computers. Please be sure to back up your hard drive before installing it. Unlike the live image, this will erase and reformat your hard drive, and you will lose anything that is already on it!

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        grant2258 Banned
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        done a test install all went well both on deb and this just the wifi drivers had to be added for me during install the script worked flawless. Obviously there was a few setting that needed done for full screen ect but really this works so well out of the box for x86 thanks guys works a treat

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          meleu @grant2258
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          @grant2258 out of curiosity, who are "we"?

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            grant2258 Banned
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            that was just a paste from the rasperry pie website

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              herb_fargus administrators @grant2258
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              @grant2258 you can use > before a block of text to quote it to eliminate ambiguity

              If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

              Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                grant2258 Banned
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                I apologize for that see how it reads after it was posted no its a raspberry pi website official release just to be clear

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