DuckStation now refuses to build in Arch Linux package environments and announces end of Linux support (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Demifriend@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Scripts: Remove PKGBUILD

I originally provided this an alternative to the broken AUR packages.

However, it seems that Arch users would rather use broken packages and keep complaining to me instead of their packager. I specifically forbid packages for DuckStation (see README.md), and there's no way to request removal of these packages without handing my details over to a distribution I want nothing to do with.

So this is step one. Next step will be removing Linux support entirely, because I'm sick of the headaches and hacks for an operating system that only compromises 2% of the userbase, and I don't even use myself. But I'm hoping the Linux community will be reasonable, because as someone giving up my free time and not being compensated in any way, I shouldn't have to deal with this.

Just grep the source for "wayland" and you'll see what I mean.

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[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

But also this guy literally stabbed the entire community in the back by making his project proprietary.

If he's not emotionally mature enough to handle 2% of his user base doing dumb shit then why is he publishing his hobby project? One site uploaded a script to build his project (perfectly legal BTW) and hes going to drop an entire OS platform over it.

Fuck this guy specifically.

this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025

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