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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

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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

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.

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This is the type of shit that makes devs not want to support Linux. Respect volunteers.

Why is it terrible? Appimages are fine.

I'm sure that's it.

I'll continue to not use software from mewling babies who blame others because they can't control their own boundaries.

Are you smoking crack right now? You sound like you are hopped up on something.

I'm sure that's it.

I'll continue to not use software from mewling babies who blame others because they can't control their own boundaries.

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

What a whiny baby XD

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