• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The overwhelming majority of Linux users are on 4 distros + derivatives. Debian Fedora Arch Suse not “thousands”

    Where would what end? Most actually open source projects just publish releases to source and provide as much or as little support as they feel like. Slap a github issues page up and tell every user that you are only interested in dealing with bugs in the most recent version in whatever official channel you prefer eg provide appimage of releases and insist that users reproduce and document bug.

    Time wasted mostly wont even bother to create a github account and if they do close issues if they can’t follow directions.

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      15 days ago

      You do realize that following your own argument he could put up a GitHub issues page and say he only supports Windows and drop everything Linux related.

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        15 days ago

        Indeed. If he changed the license to allow packaging the new version, at least all of those reports would be of the current version rather than the last GPL one.

        Let the community in and use their time to contribute rather than locking it down as a one man project and then complaining about it.

    • ObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Plus you can just make a flatpak or appimage and be done with it since those are distro agnostic. Wouldn’t be the first software where the flatpak is the only supported version and the AUR isn’t; see OBS