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It is not, you may be confusing it with retrodeck, which is solely distributed as a flatpak.
Oh really? Boo.
Retrodeck looks good, but the recommended install instructions were just too nutty for me:
curl https://... | bashis not ok.Well that looks promising. Last time I looked into it, I was put off by a shell script that called sudo, but if it's bound to a Flatpak, I can work with that.
Ahh, yeah that's about what I remember. Too messy for me. This sounds like it'd be better as an actual package (apt/pacman) then.
You can download and read the installer script
You...can just download the script and inspect it yourself before running. This cargo cult "security" advice needs to stop.
I did just that. It's not about security. It's about messing with my machine's setup. I don't want to run a bunch of rando commands that might mess with how my actual package manager manages my system.
This is quite fair, and I agree. I just hear far too often people rejecting running scripts out of hand because sOmEoNe sAiD pIpE iT tO tHe sHeLL. Usually such scripts are just using the package manager anyway.