Operating system... What are you using?

[severdhed]

It's been many years since I've built a cabinet, but I'm in the planning stages of one. I'm the past, I've always used a Windows PC because they are very configurable. 

I've recently setup a bunch of console emulator systems using batocera on some raspberry pis, and I've been thinking about using that instead. I've get it installed on a mini PC and setup with final burn neo. It seems to run ok, although it takes longer to launch the games than I would expect (⁷th Gen i5, 8gh ram, 1tb SATA SSD). It was easy to set up, the ui looks ok, but I just worry that I can't customize it like I'm used to.


I'm not a huge fan of hotkey based functions, especially for pause and exit.

I'm tempted to just install Windows 7 and setting it up with Mame and attract mode like I've done with my previous cabinet... What are your thoughts? What do you use?




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[Zebidee]

I'm using Win7 with Attract-Mode. Very happy with it. I run it on much older computers than yours.

Aside from familiarity, I also like to use my arcade cab for playing music and PC games, so this suits my needs.

If all I wanted to do was run MAME and some emulators, I'd probably be looking more seriously at a linux or Pi based solution. Still interested in doing this when I have the time to focus on it.

Whatever works for you.

[MartyKong]

Windows 7 for the arcade. No reason to fix what ain't broke. I run a Retrobat system off a USB for a portable system.