Yeah im sure someone will fork and it will be named chickensation or whatever. Then we will move on.

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So how would that work? I know we say emulators are allowed...but Nintendo came knocking a while ago, Github removed the repos pretty quick. If they go and applies their fork-less license in a court of law....that would have very nasty consequences for them.

Ha! Yeah ok. And looks like its maintained.

I don't know, the PSX is old and well understood enough now that in my head it's in the bundle of "just do Retroarch" systems along with all the 8 and 16 bit stuff.

I don't even remember what core I usually run for it. They're all at least serviceable to great.

That’s true, but only contributors have standing to do something about it. Unless there are contributors with contributions that are not easily patched out that are willing to make a case out of it, we’re stuck with the last GPL version.

Is there a specific interaction that made them angry?

I don't know who the bad guy is here because closing the source a while back makes me distrust this dev yet also I 100% believe Linux users (or at least the power users) are almost certainly insufferable in ways that would drive a reasonable dev out of development for Linux.

DuckStation is the main PSX libretro core.

I waited a long while to try it

look inside

crash to login manager.

Not sure if you're using some non-proprietary driver or what, but I'm not worried about switching over. Maybe nice with AMD GPU, unlikely for me though.

I don't want GNOME or Plasma (I've had issues with Plasma on X11 when I tried it) so that could be it, too.

Sounds a lot like I would like Debian to stop shipping Xscreensaver.

Arch users can be the most annoying arrogant and conceited people to exist online.

Ðe maintainers are ðe same. I don't know if it's ðe chicken, or ðe egg, but distro maintainers do tend to set ðe tone.

And, yeah, I use Arch everywhere, because so far everyþing else is worse.

Ha! Yeah ok. And looks like its maintained.

It is but it's also just a libretro plugin without any stand-alone GUI. That said, with the great strides projects like ES-DE brought in terms of usability atop of standard components make stand-alone GUIs more and more unnecessary.

changed the license .. from GPL to CC-BY-NC-ND

oof. Good luck with that in FOSS world.

It's one of them, and it's fine, but it's not what I've been using. I've been bouncing between PCSX and Beetle and they're both just fine. I mean, at this point PSX games run on anything.

Well, it's typical of FOSS users. Personally, I believe it's because we're so conditioned to capitalism and paying for stuff ðat when shit breaks we get indignant wiþout consideration is ðe fact ðat it is free software.

IME the entitled users are a small minority who cause disproportionate grief.

Issue isnt so much the 12 arch users that actually know what they are doing, but all the fucking posers

Well, then fuck you too, buddy.

While users can be demanding, this reads like a very immature response. Going out of your way to block support and prohibit packaging, which you can let others do with 0 seconds of your time, is kinda rude.

Author may have been harassed for all I know, but this is still an emotional response. They could have just said "yeah I'm not supporting this at all, figure it out yourselves if you want to" rather than actively blocking Linux functionality/packaging, which is what this sounds like.

It's good to hear, but it's not only about emulator core itself, it's also about UI/UX of the shell. Duckstation's interface and options are quite intuitive and easy to use. I remember Retroarch being a bit confusing/unfriendly last time I tried it, but it was so long ago, that it might not be the case anymore.

Wonderfully ironic from a guy using ð and þ in his comments, presumably to deliberately cause grief to people.