The last time I tried emulation on a desktop PC, whether it was Windows or Linux, I had to install each emulator separately. It was a bit of a mess.
On my Steam Deck, Emudeck made it stupid easy. Retroarch wasn’t terrible, but was a bit more irritating and buggy for me to get working. Either way, it had a bunch of emulators all in one spot so I didn’t have to go hunting for a ton of them. Are there solutions like this for Linux as well now? What about for Windows or something like a RetroPIE?
I think this is what you’re looking for?
Lutris, you can easily manage all the emulators
Emudeck is just an installer for RetroArch with Emulationstation as the frontend, so just install those, and you’ll have the same experience.
Retroarch is solid after you take some time to configure it to work exactly how you want it to cuz some of the defaults are a bit weird