I had some bad experiences with wine/proton, especially on older hardware. There are sometimes weird bugs that are very hard to reproduce. For example: I couldnt play starfield for about a year because most textures were missing. No idea what was causing it. After a year it suddenly worked. Generally if you check Protondb for any game you will find that a few people have crazy bugs, even if everyone else says that it runs perfectly. I think I dont have a single game in my library that has a “Platinum” compatibility rating.

I think it boils down to how would you prefer to support linux players: By fixing bugs in your port, or chasing after bugs in wine/proton. The negatives of native ports that other people have raised are because many (larger) developers make the initial linux port, and then forget about it. Civilisation 6 for example has a good linux port. Yay! But they stopped updating it years ago. Many bugs were never fixed, and linux players dont even have access to the newest dlc! Compare it to running Civ 5 in wine. Things mostly work, exept mod support. Most mods just dont work. Who knows why.

I think native ports may have become easier nowadays too, because of the steam runtime. Steam can run linux games in their flatpak-like runtime, so ideally you only have to support that.

If you are planning on open sourcing your game (maybe some time after the commercial release) then a linux port would be very appeciated for packaging reasons. Other than that, your preference.

Yes, this new iteration of Junk Store will be paid software and will be closed source.

And then I stopped reading.

Still no NTSYNC…

No they dont, not with the current american administration.

oh wow, no one is left from that disagreement, they both resigned.

They finally found a bagholder!

You can “dual license” your code, proprietary and whatever strong copyleft you prefer. For users, it means copyleft, and for steam it means your code is compatible.

Theres a “do not disturb at night” option on all modern phones nowadays for people who dont want to become unreachable

nooooo, whyyyy, i wanted to play it on the steam deck :(

Alright, fair. I was more refering to the content of the message, not the (botched) metaphore of maintainers as a force of order.

I read the “thin blue line” email and it seems… reasonable and sensible? And seeing how he is so appaled by it makes me question his judgement a bit.

yaaaaaaaaay, and it only took them 5 years of discussions!

Nightshade doesnt actually work btw. Denoising, a common technique, also breaks nightshade completely. Its also closed source, with no way to test if it actually works for the big AIs. The person making nightshade is really fishy too.

pual blarp ghoul cop

I think thats only if you let them host it, selfhosted is unlimited

Gnu Guix recently had a user survey, and they used limesurvey

Ok, this is up there with “lets attack Greenland”

Its freely availible with a permissive license, but I dont think that that claim has been verified yet.

One of those rare lucid moments by the stock market? Is this the market correction that everyone knew was coming, or is some famous techbro going to technobabble some more about AI overlords and they return to their fantasy values?

Its finally happening??