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Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. (reddthat.com)
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[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The overwhelming majority of Linux users are on 4 distros + derivatives. Debian Fedora Arch Suse not "thousands"

Where would what end? Most actually open source projects just publish releases to source and provide as much or as little support as they feel like. Slap a github issues page up and tell every user that you are only interested in dealing with bugs in the most recent version in whatever official channel you prefer eg provide appimage of releases and insist that users reproduce and document bug.

Time wasted mostly wont even bother to create a github account and if they do close issues if they can't follow directions.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Plus you can just make a flatpak or appimage and be done with it since those are distro agnostic. Wouldn't be the first software where the flatpak is the only supported version and the AUR isn't; see OBS

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Higher in this thread they said the author does provide a flatpak, so this didn't seem to work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯