An interesting and important look at the development of Factorio's Linux-native port from an actual developer: the platform in general, Wayland, GNOME's bullshit, and dependencies.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't know if this is still the case, but Linux was the only platform that could save in the background because they were forking the process to do so.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I remember reading they did port this to windows, using the same kind of process, but it was originally only on Linux because the forking process was so easily implemented.

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