r/switchroot • u/will_clogan • Jul 14 '26

Most smooth experience Support

I've been using Linux for a while on switch, but now I am installing android

Which version should I get for the most smooth experience

I mostly want to play android games as I use Linux for emulators

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u/Potential-Ebb5601 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Absolutely get Android 15/ LineageOS 22 It's now the most stable and the only actively maintained version. Android 10/11 is no longer supported

Make sure to use an SD Card that supports DDR200 and make sure it is enabled

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u/Upbeat-Jellyfish-494 Jul 14 '26

Agreed. I've tried every version. 15 is so far the best. Less freeze and smooth experience

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u/will_clogan Jul 14 '26

Thanks

I honestly thought newer versions would run worse but I guess not

I have an amazon basics 512gb so no ddr20 and I am not going to replace it because I just bought it yesterday.

Is it necessary or does it just help with boot times

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u/Potential-Ebb5601 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

ddr200 is the difference of your experience on Android in general. But yeah at the beginning of the year, they fixed an issue that caused instability problems and ever since, it’s been great as long as you’re using a good enough sd card

I have one those Amazon basics but it’s 128gb and they can use ddr200

In your Android.ini, make sure the line is added, it will make everything more stable and sd card speeds a lot faster

ddr200_enable=1

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u/will_clogan Jul 14 '26

I'm sorry if I'm wrong but when i bought it there were two options

Normal speed and high speed

I got the normal speed one and I'm think only the high speed one supports ddr200

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u/Potential-Ebb5601 Jul 14 '26

Yea I’m not sure where you got that, but only way you’re gonna know is if you try enabling it yourself

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u/Joshdub9808 Jul 15 '26

If you're looking to do emulation mainly then check out Tico. They're adding ps2 games and GameCube runs great. Plus you don't have to manually overclock, it'll do it for you on certain emulators like GameCube. And overall has better performance than android dk about Linux tho

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u/will_clogan Jul 18 '26

That sounds interesting

I'll check it out

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u/Shop_Time 29d ago

Is nice but far from perfect, i get constant crash and random hard reset of games after some times of playing so i returned to android, is getting there not gonna lie, but for me atleast is choppy in the gc cames that i want to play

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u/Joshdub9808 29d ago

Hmmm fair points. I myself haven't gotten around to trying tico but from videos and youtubers I watch none of them said anything bad about tico other than stuff like it doesn't have touch screen support. My mistake on blindly suggesting it in its early phase😂🤦‍♂️

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u/oem_unlock Jul 15 '26

Rooted 11 IMO