Sad to see, but I don't blame him at all.

Checking some other threads, seems this dev can show themselves out and everything will be chill.

DuckStation is in flatpak form, on flathub, right now, official version.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.duckstation.DuckStation

I mean, I too would get very, very annoyed by a tiny minority of overall users complaining about not being able to deploy/use my software in a way that ... there is a functional alternative to... and I am not an expert in their particular preffered use case.

The way I am reading this is that he has removed PKGBUILD, and that entirely dropping linux overall is basically a threat, not necessarily a promise.

Obviously that is my subjective interpretation, but it is my interpretation, thus I find the post title ... maybe not the most accurate.

Obviously nuking all linux support would be doing massive excess splash damage to unintended targets, and I do think he's acting a bit rashly, but at the same time, I completely empathize and sympathize with being constantly bothered by people with very specific demands... again, in a case where there is a viable alternative.

But, I also think a potentially better solution to all this would seem to be for him to just allow a fork or downstream version of DuckStation, just publically say "I'm not supporting PKGBUILD/Arch, if Arch people wanna figure it out, go nuts."

Well, thier choice (apparently flatpaks are bad as well). it's not like there is no other PS1 emulator, and without this person and their shareware project all will be lost.

I use duck station on Android. It's freaking great. Does it even need updates? Dev doesn't owe anyone anything and drop Linux support if they want to. It's probably more a threat than anything else. Worse case scenario Linux support goes away and a competitor comes along eventually. Sounds great.

As a Linux user we really are the worst, especially Arch. I only got into Linux because I'm trying to get off Windows in the long run. And while I'd say about half of the community is great, the other half are insufferable. They'll want you to do everything for them, tell you they could do it better, and talk down to you all at the same time.

Hahahaha