not involved into gzdoom in any way, but it looks like too much of mobbing, while the project leader left only one one-liner of a reply.

Graf has a history of being a major dick, and hyper controlling.

Well, not in the github issue mentioned in the article. If I was a major dick and a control freak, I would delete everyone's comments and ban them immediately and permanently.
Maybe you are right, and the guy's dismissive reply was the last thing that made everyone lose it, but come on.

In my opinion, the internet nowadays is a highly hysterical environment, where people argue, fight, cancel, burn bridges between each other over nothingburgers.

To me it starts to look like a conspiracy where something or someone ruins everything by any means, so we can't have nice things. Crazy, I know.

The internet has became a place that I am mostly avoiding.

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Windows only? All three have linux ports done by Feral

my soul wants to say yes, but linux ABI break over a decade says no. until devs do flatpaks of their games, things won't get better with native ports. or open source ports would be even better, but it won't happen, because games often rely on 3rd party middleware/libraries with very restrictive licences.

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developers that use premade engines with compiling linux build via one button press: "noooooo making linux version is so hard"

indie developers with inhouse engines: "so I just need to rewrite system calls and rendering hooks to linux? seems easy"

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AI bubble, please burst ASAP. I can't take it anymore. I am sick of autogenerated websites with generated AI slop nonsense text (when an article about a game tells about non-existing skill trees, for example). And now ai slop will be in browsers, wow. Hopefully, this ai crap won't be included in chromium forks.

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This is why my next GPU will be AMD. Nvidia makes me sick with their lack of support. Few shiny features at launch are not worth getting a half abandoned device couple of years later.

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Yeah online racing is not that great, players tend to turn it into derby, because they don't get any penalty, and ruining someone's race by pushing the other car is easier than fair race for the first place. Racing games are better played as a single player.

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unfortunately, linux native packaging requires constant maintaining of apps that rely on external dependencies.
unless it is flatpak or appimage, proton version is better than outdated and borked linux build.

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When I remember HDR was great on KDE I cry... They decided that the same bar that changes SDR brightness also is good to change HDR. The new settings made HDR impossible to fix. I just can't reproduce what PS4/5 outputs on Linux anymore thanks to ONE kde dev that thinks his way of doing thing is the right one.

go to discuss.kde.org, give your feedback on this feature. maybe devs will consider improving it, maybe they will tell you about some way to configure it you don't know about. just keep cool attitude, kde devs are very open minded.

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To show how great GNU/Linux is and that it's possible to develop games directly for and on it. Doing so gives credibility.

there are quite few native linux games on steam. older ones might not even run on modern linux distros.

few days ago I tried to play blasphemous. 2019 game. the linux build crashes immediately on arch. switched to proton, everything works now.

the reason for it? libraries have their versions changed, maybe drivers and kernel have changed too much. old API/ABI is broken. Linux doesn't really consider backwards compatibility, because most of its history the software that was used on linux was mostly open source that always could be fixed and compiled against new dependencies.

most of games are abandonware binaries. they need old dependencies. as far as i know, flatpak solved this issue. it can store different versions of dependencies side by side.

the only exception are games with open source code, like quake 1, but supporting them on linux is still continuous effort, even if relatively small.

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