Comments on: DuckStation PS1 Emulator Dev May Drop Linux Support After AUR Frustrations

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:04:04 +0000

I’m using DuckStation almost daily (damn, nostalgia…) and it would be heartbreaking for me. It’s getting harder and harder to understand people. If I want to use a piece of software I’m opening manual, then checking forums, threads, guides if something is not working. I will watch videos, tutorials etc. Contact with software developer would be my last resort, and only if my life would depend on it. How do some people feel so entitled to write to developer with every bulls*it question they have? Citing old proverb “Linux Users are the greatest enemies of Linux Users” or “Damn you Linux Community, you’ve destroyed Linux Community”… Peace!

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:49:57 +0000

Fork it and host it somewhere in Asia where his US lawyers can’t do anything about it. 🙂 Ignore his stupid license. 🙂

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:55:45 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. He could force compliance with a lawyer so there actually is something he could do. Heck I would help pay for a lawyer if he asked for donations for it since I understand how annoying a lot of these dumb people are that have no idea what they are doing. I fully understand his licensing and some of the projects I have worked on have had to enforce there licensing in the past.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:38:45 +0000

Arch users like software that whoever can throw together and hand out without any quality control or security checks and they recently found malware again which people have to stumble onto by accident then report. He should just stick to his official flatpak on flathub and not worry about trying to help a specific distro since the flatpak covers most linux users.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:34:04 +0000

“Awww man. I have to hear from users of my software on a distro that I don’t use”
Tough luck man. Doesn’t make a difference either way since a PKGBUILD isn’t repackaging the software but rather building it from source.
Someone else will make an AUR package for it, and there’s not much the dev can do besides complain some more.