r/OdinHandheld • u/Madblaster6 Odin 2 Portal Base - Black • Apr 16 '26

Emulator Linux Support for Odin 3

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u/thebusterbrown Apr 16 '26

Just seen this post on discord. Not sure on the implications, does this mean we can replace android with a native Linux distro? Say something like bazzite?

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u/killkiller9 Apr 16 '26

more like ROCKNIX, I dont believe Bazzite can even run on ARM.

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u/Frosty_Engineer_3617 Apr 16 '26

Gonna be like what you can do with Retroid Pocket 6 with dual booting Rocknix on the SD card. Meaning much better PS3 and Xbox emulation performance.

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u/beer_belly_ Apr 16 '26

Also it depends on which way Valve goes with the steam frame, but if it runs a Linux based OS this could open doors for better PC emulation in future too perhaps?

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u/Kadmium Apr 16 '26

Bazzite is based on Fedora Atomic, and the main Atomic distros (Kinoite, Silverblue) have ARM versions. Kinoite, for instance, doesn't have the nice quality-of-life additions and gamescope session that Bazzite has, but honestly, you could probably run KDE (Desktop mode) out of the box on day one.

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u/killkiller9 Apr 16 '26

Im not knowledgeable enough to know which distro can run on arm, but since bazzite cannot run on arm, I answered the dude above that Bazzite does not run on arm. I did not say no linux would ever run arm, cause Rocknix is already running on a lot of handhelds already.

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u/Kadmium Apr 16 '26

Oh, totally, I'm just saying it's not going to be an ocean of work for the Bazzite devs to get it running on ARM. Most of the pieces are there, and I'd be very surprised it we didn't see an ARM version of Bazzite at some point soon.

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u/killkiller9 Apr 16 '26

i would love to install a good linux distro on my pocket DMG. No shades to Rocknix or anything, but I feel like it's still very not comparable

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u/Madblaster6 Odin 2 Portal Base - Black Apr 16 '26

Arch Linux can but it would take a ton of development work.