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Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. (reddthat.com)
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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You can't fork it or redistribute it... but you can distribute patches for users to apply, and those are easy to add in a PKGBUILD. That's how a lot of game/ROM patches are distributed and they appear to be legal.

It's an emulator, lets be real, the majority of the users couldn't give a shit about license terms anyway.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It’s also a PS1 emulator. A console that’s been emulated for over 20 years now.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Getting flashbacks to installing qmail back in the day...

I have a heard time imagining it to be worth it with other psx emulators readily available without weird hoops to go through.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah... But then it sucks for anyone not running Arch (btw) or derivative distros. I really don't have a dog in this merge conflict but really would feel bad for any packager maintainers.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

but really would feel bad for any packager maintainers.

It's already unpackageable because of the license anyway.

The only "legit" way to get the emulator is their provided AppImage bundle, and nothing else. The author also has a rant about Flatpak being broken and unreliable and refusing to support that, so...

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have some issues with flatpak, myself, but that mainly stems from having trouble finding documentation to clear up how to properly use extensions and non-standard dependencies that are easy to do with OCI images.

Ex. I had a really hard time trying to get Vega Strike built as a flatpak.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it's only available via appimage, as the reply to this comment states, then it will still run just fine on Arch.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is it terrible? Appimages are fine.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

Appinages are fine. Needing to apply changes as patchsets rather than just building normally sucks. Especially in deb and rpm distros.