> To achieve a more children-proof environment, I decided to run Retroarch directly from a TTY, without a graphical server. I'd love to read more about getting that up.
You would like to see more specific instructions for the setup?
Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station
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Re: Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station
#12This is fantastic and should be on the list of "Things to do with an old laptop."
Thanks!
Re: Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station
#13> To achieve a more children-proof environment, I decided to run Retroarch directly from a TTY, without a graphical server. I'd love to read more about getting that up.
It could be rendering directly to the framebuffer (e.g. `mpv playthisfromtty.mp4`). Or they mean they used pure X (e.g. `startx`) and added a decent v-sync compositor such as picom.
it's directly using the framebuffer without X or Wayland involved. This is possible because of the SDL backend