Programmer by day, burnt out by night.

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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Again, I’m talking about an open source application, not about user contributions.
    The main benefit of this is be that people can know what your application does, and thus it increases trust in your application.

    I don’t see any downsides in this for you, unless you want to sell the web application and/or artificially minimise competition.






  • Their store page says it runs some sort of Linux OS.

    Is it possible to open a terminal and a file manager? Could you install Wine through the terminal (something like sudo apt install wine or sudo pacman -S wine) and then run the .exe with Wine? The latter could be done with the terminal (cd path/to/windows/game/files/; wine 'The Game.exe'), but if there’s a file manager you could probably select the .exe and run it with Wine.

    Sorry to give such broad instructions, I’m not sure what the Anbernic runs, exactly.





  • Why Not Open Source? We respect open-source ideals but saw other projects struggle with clutter/inefficiency. We opted for a focused, curated approach to keep the database simple and user-friendly which seems to work exactly as intended based on your and other users’ feedback.

    I think you’re confusing open-source with user-contributed. I understand from your message why you want to curate data instead of accepting and showing many people’s contributions, but not why you wouldn’t make the site’s code publicly available.