Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets

Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by _wmd on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:53PM (#18849304)

But there is another option, it was mentioned in the original complaint :)

> So it means for every product, have a build for every distro / version combination you want to support.

Of course it's a total pain in the ass, but it's still vastly preferable to unfixable bugs sometime in the distant future

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by kentonv on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:29PM (#18849660)

I'm not sure how per-distro (or distro-version) builds fix the problem, unless you're committing to continuously produce new builds for future distro versions to account for ABI changes. If you can do that, you can also fix issues with static linking if/when the come up.

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:22PM (#18853122)

There's a better solution: don't ship on an OS that insists on being a pain in the ass to ship on.

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