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DuckStation now refuses to build in Arch Linux package environments and announces end of Linux support (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Demifriend@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Scripts: Remove PKGBUILD

I originally provided this an alternative to the broken AUR packages.

However, it seems that Arch users would rather use broken packages and keep complaining to me instead of their packager. I specifically forbid packages for DuckStation (see README.md), and there's no way to request removal of these packages without handing my details over to a distribution I want nothing to do with.

So this is step one. Next step will be removing Linux support entirely, because I'm sick of the headaches and hacks for an operating system that only compromises 2% of the userbase, and I don't even use myself. But I'm hoping the Linux community will be reasonable, because as someone giving up my free time and not being compensated in any way, I shouldn't have to deal with this.

Just grep the source for "wayland" and you'll see what I mean.

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[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So if I’m understanding this right, they don’t want to try to fix the linux version anymore so they’re just completely breaking its ability to run on linux at all? What kinda sense does that make?? What a baby. They couldda just said they weren’t gonna update it anymore

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

And due to their license choice, no forking to get around it (legally). Would need to distribute a script and patch instead.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They offer downloads in Flatpak (think this is removed now) and Appimage. They are upset that people are having problems with third party packages for different distros (mainly Arch) and reporting those bugs as if they're the developers fault.

It wastes a ton of time and resources to filter through these vs. legitimate bugs for something the developer doesn't officially support anyway.