On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 23:05 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2021-08-23 22:57, Martin Wilck wrote:
This reminds me of the loss of DisplayCal to Python 3. There, too, upstream is at fault - but that information provides zero consolation to people who need to the tool. Between toolkit and distro maintainers who want to get rid of old cruft, and application developers who have no time for porting their apps, the users are left out in the cold.
Sounds just like all the DOS games that developers never ported to Linux, leaving users out in the cold...
Does it? To me, it's a difference whether an application was never available, or whether it was dropped. You loose something you'd come to like, which is far worse than never having got in touch with it. I'm not whining (at least, trying not to). I just think that for (almost) every user there's a tipping point where it gets just too painful to use an OS that repeatedly stops supporting favorite applications. We should take that into account, somehow. Btw DOS games work fine on Linux these days, so I'm told. Martin