I mean, I too would get very, very annoyed by a tiny minority of overall users complaining about not being able to deploy/use my software in a way that … there is a functional alternative to… and I am not an expert in their particular preffered use case.
The way I am reading this is that he has removed PKGBUILD, and that entirely dropping linux overall is basically a threat, not necessarily a promise.
Obviously that is my subjective interpretation, but it is my interpretation, thus I find the post title … maybe not the most accurate.
Obviously nuking all linux support would be doing massive excess splash damage to unintended targets, and I do think he’s acting a bit rashly, but at the same time, I completely empathize and sympathize with being constantly bothered by people with very specific demands… again, in a case where there is a viable alternative.
But, I also think a potentially better solution to all this would seem to be for him to just allow a fork or downstream version of DuckStation, just publically say “I’m not supporting PKGBUILD/Arch, if Arch people wanna figure it out, go nuts.”
DuckStation is in flatpak form, on flathub, right now, official version.
https://flathub.org/apps/org.duckstation.DuckStation
I mean, I too would get very, very annoyed by a tiny minority of overall users complaining about not being able to deploy/use my software in a way that … there is a functional alternative to… and I am not an expert in their particular preffered use case.
The way I am reading this is that he has removed PKGBUILD, and that entirely dropping linux overall is basically a threat, not necessarily a promise.
Obviously that is my subjective interpretation, but it is my interpretation, thus I find the post title … maybe not the most accurate.
Obviously nuking all linux support would be doing massive excess splash damage to unintended targets, and I do think he’s acting a bit rashly, but at the same time, I completely empathize and sympathize with being constantly bothered by people with very specific demands… again, in a case where there is a viable alternative.
But, I also think a potentially better solution to all this would seem to be for him to just allow a fork or downstream version of DuckStation, just publically say “I’m not supporting PKGBUILD/Arch, if Arch people wanna figure it out, go nuts.”
As of 2025/07/26, with the aforementioned issues and a lack of interest from users, the Flatpak package is deprecated.
https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/blob/47fe487c2eb03a42440bb08fb2bb011d4a08634a/README.md#flatpak