Who forces him to respond to such messages on Discord? He can just not engage with people of whom he thinks are idiots.

If he doesn’t want to engage with users at all, maybe not set up a Discord in the first place.

If you are the copyright owner you can relicense any way you want learn some copyright law.

No. Some people just simply can't ignore that shit. Why can't those users just not post asinine comments.

So not setting up a Discord in the first place is not an option because some people are so desperate to get feedback even though they are annoyed by feedback?

In his defense, a LOT of emulator maintainers have this sentiment about RetroArch, so I can't fault him too much for that one in particular.

I do get the sense this is more common with emulators in general.

You mean "self-entitled". "Entitled" means that you actually are owed something. It's like the difference between righteous and self-righteous.

Yeah... That's pretty terrible. I was meaning packaging patchsets for other distros. Hopefully the GPL-preserving fork is better.

In his defense, a LOT of emulator maintainers have this sentiment about RetroArch, so I can’t fault him too much for that one in particular.

Then release your emulator as a paid app for iOS with a closed source and go nuts. Otherwise it's like going out naked during a rainy day and shouting you're getting wet.

What is the problem with retroarch ? Am curious.

Don't conflate my passtime wiþ some manifesto of demands.

Your bio literally ends with:

Join ðe resistance.

Commit.

Its moments like this I'm glad to be a nixos user lol.

Slap that shit in a flake and forget about it. No matter what updates the dev has, or what system the user has, its always gonna compile.

Fuck I love nix.

If it had genitals I'd fucking date it.

I use arch on a couple of machines and for a rolling release I find it surprisingly hassle free. So with a scientifically relevant sample size of one - I declare that it's the people that are the problem.

That is with regular updates though.

I also have a gentoo box that is fine if you let it update every week or two, but tends to need more love and attention if you turn it on again after half a year. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the same for arch. Users who only update twice a year aren't really the target audience for rolling release.

It probably also depends on your hardware and what your usecases are; as always using the right tool for the job helps

Commit.

I see a few top level comments agreeing with the sentiment that users are being entitled or abusive, but what are they actually referring to? The linked image certainly has no evidence of such behavior. Someone who claims to be the developer filed a deletion request for the duckstation-git AUR package on the AUR and they say:

Every time, it turns into abuse towards me, as you can also see in the comments for the package.

I read through a few pages of the comments here and they're mostly people talking about fixing issues with the package, and what to do about the dev purposely breaking the build... I only found a single message that could be called abuse:

@eugene, not really but i suspect it's an uphill battle, check the commit message: https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/30df16cc767297c544e1311a3de4d10da30fe00c

FWIW, I'm moving to pcsx-redux, I rather run a little bit less advanced PSX emulator than software by this upstream asshat. Regardless, much thanks for maintaining the AUR package so far.

And even this is not a good example of what stenzek is describing. For one, it's obviously a reaction to stenzek's hostile changes and not the sort of user coming for support and being abusive that stenzek is talking about. The user is also explicitly moving to a different emulator and not expecting any change from duckstation.

The answer for this guy and other people stretched by supporting Linux is to say it's flatpak or nothing. Stop trying to build for each dist because it's not sustainable. If someone on a dist wants to maintain a package then let them take the heat if it is broken.

What a whiny baby XD

Slap those genitals in a flake and get those dinner reservations ready!

Nixos can be whatever your imagination wants it to be!

As a Linux user, I disagree. It's his time and investment. Sometimes you gotta make difficult choices and when users complain about stuff that's unrelated, it's a mess for a dev to deal with. And Linux users are loud

He's a total baby. He gives off big 2000s Windows only user energy