As they say, "I love games, my favorite it the multiplayer text adventure called Unix."

I never liked vi or emacs, but when I learned the basics of vi, I was amazed how similar it is to nethack.

The final boss is really hard.

What a low effort way to put down someone's efforts. Is your issue with Linux? That's not up to the dev. Is your issue with the game? How about some constructive criticism?

It's really just:

1. apt-get install some deps 2. get the source 3. call make a few different ways 4. run the binary

Really not that complicated. If you wanted to, you could make a flatpak, docker container, appimage, snap, deb, rpm, or whatever for your OS in a few minutes and save everyone else the install.

My idea of a simple intuitive process is ./configure; make; make install.

Is that deprecated for some reason these days?

That's still kind of nuts when you compare it to how you install application on the other major desktop operating systems.

It’s not the OS’s fault that the developer’s application is hard to run out-of-the-box. If the developer wanted to make it easy, he could just build a .deb, host it on his own PPA and ask people to install it with apt-get.