Defending a dick head dev they know nothing about or their history and insulting end users under false assumption. Overly self righteous.

Yep, reddit as fuck.

Fortunately, it looks like that was done already with Swanstation, which also has many more contributors.

Dolphin is the poster child example of changing licences properly. It was a painful job just getting in touch with all the long inactive devs.

If Stenzek is too much you'll want to avoid Retoarch entirely. TwinAphex is a raging patholgical liar and micromanager who breaks other people's code and apologizes about as frequently as PirateSoftware. Many emulator devs hate his guts.

I hate TwinAphex's guts so I won't use Retroarch/Libretro.

I got mednafen standalone for PS1.

No, Maintainer comes off as pissed off for dealing with a lot of headaches created by others creating a version he doesnt support, and doesnt want, yet is dealing with all the backlash and headache of.

and to try to stem the tide, he created a package just for those people.. and they refuse to use it, continuing to use the broken version, and bombarding him with headaches over something that he, again, does not control.

Only liars would say they wouldnt be pissed off dealing with such a situation.

Sounds like hes just tired of dealing with idiots.

Which I can sympathise with.

OK I didn't know that, stupid move on his part then...
What do you mean by likely illegally?

Is TwinAphex still involved in Libretro? Can't seem to find evidence of them from the last few years.

One of them when I was asking about how to I make the Alt key on Windows to stop it trying to open the nonexistent menu bar, then they told me to “just add one”.

FYI - if you haven't figured this out already (and useful info for other Win32 devs), simply block WM_SYSCOMMAND in your WndProc of your app if the pressed key is SC_KEYMENU.

I've done this for a game mod I'm developing (it didn't have windowed mode originally) and I specifically blocked it only during active gameplay. Otherwise (e.g. during menus) it can be pretty useful to keep active.

As someone who used to use arch for years, I can't stand its users who go around acting like running it is some herculean task that takes serious knowledge.

In reality its not much more than a misbehaved pet that requires constant attention and a blog post to be read every month or so. Not because its hard, but because its updates are just kinda slapped together and tossed out in the name of speed.

One of the biggest indicators of this is the AUR. For what it was worth, the Gentoo crowd it replaced at least knew how to compile a program.

Maybe learn to use git, tar, and make like literally anyone else on any other fucking distro.

Yeah, PS2 is standalone business still. And in its defense, PCSX2 is super user friendly as a stand-alone package and supports most of the shared stuff you'd want from Retroarch anyway.

While I understand and respect his feeling, in my limited experience, people that don't like when distributions package their software are often deranged.

Still, if you are using OS packages, your first stop should be OS fora / bug trackers, not upstream. Whoever is producing the distro/OS packages should engage with upstream if and when that's necessary. Upstream, especially small upstreams, really shouldn't be expected to deal with the craziness of Nix, Arch, Debian, and SteamOS all at the same time.

Users are, IME, mostly annoying. Sometimes (not often) I'm glad none of my software has any. At least at work I can point at the Teams / Slack / Jira conversation to prove they specifically asked for something completely different last week and I implemented that.

I thought they said ahunter2.

Oh. Time for a fork. -ND variants are not Free Software / Open Source.

It's more than just FOSS users. It's "The Internet" in general. At least two of the modding scenes I've been in have had multiple developers (and artists and translators) just quit due to their users aggressively complaining about the stuff they give away for free.

Of course, it doesn't get that much better when people have to pay for things -- ask customer service representatives how much toxicity they see from unsatisfied customers.

You are the only one here carrying on a grudge and being vocal about it.

Are you a big fan of FOSS? How much are you going to support FOSS developers today hmmm?

The point is that someone posted this guy’s project to the AUR with a badly written PKGBUILD and it was failing to build. This led to him getting tons of support requests which he could not help with since he doesn’t control that AUR build.

He also couldn’t get it removed from AUR without giving the admins his personal information. Completely understandable given the history of console companies going after emulator developers. The guy has been doxxed and seems close to being run right out of the open source community by a bunch of zealots.

Not a license expert but he changed the license to a more restricted one but did not ask contributors which the previous license may have required.

Higher in this thread they said the author does provide a flatpak, so this didn't seem to work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯