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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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[โ€“] Localhorst86@feddit.org 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think we can count the AUR repository as the "default package" because:

  1. AUR is a community driven project, for users, by users. Repos are not maintained by the Arch team.
  2. Arch user needs to explicitely get out of their way to access and use AUR, it is not enabled by default
  3. AUR repos are not even packages (usually). They are build-instructions. There are specific -bin repos that provide packaged binaries, but that was not the case here, because the emulators license doesn't allow that.

The issue here was that stenzek moved the emulator to a source-available license, which does not allow Arch to provide packages in their package repo. So people were using build instructions to build the emulator from source. And when that caused issues because something broke, people came to stenzek for support instead of the person maintaining the build instrucions.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

And that's the real fail. AUR users need to understand how things work, AUR packages are community maintained and supported. If the build fails, complain to the AUR maintainer, and they will raise the necessary bug reports to the upstream project if the bug is w/ the project instead of the build instructions.