A little late to the party, but mark me down as interested in a native Linux version. I have a home built arcade cabinet and I was amazed at LaunchBox and BigBox speed on older hardware. Plus it is just plain polished. I tried the Wine implementation of an older version of LB/BB. I found the performance was poor (on the old hardware), both with the front-end and emulators. So Wine isn't nearly up to native speed. Now I did play with it on newer hardware and it was much better. I'm just not ready to chase down newer hardware for the cabinet (but that's on me).
All that said, hopefully Steam or MAUI or something comes along to aid the developers. I too, believe Linux has some good tools. It just can be apples and oranges some times. With only a small interested cadre in native Linux, I can see why the focus of the developers is elsewhere. With so many cross platform implementations of software, it's easy to think it's easy to port. But as a programmer, depending on the tools used in the original development, it ain't so easy at times.
I did set up a dual boot for just running my favorite emulator native on Linux. I found the speed returned for the old rig.
But Thank you, developers, for an awesome product. Keep your focus where it needs to be. I understand.
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A little late to the party, but mark me down as interested in a native Linux version. I have a home built arcade cabinet and I was amazed at LaunchBox and BigBox speed on older hardware. Plus it is just plain polished. I tried the Wine implementation of an older version of LB/BB. I found the performance was poor (on the old hardware), both with the front-end and emulators. So Wine isn't nearly up to native speed. Now I did play with it on newer hardware and it was much better. I'm just not ready to chase down newer hardware for the cabinet (but that's on me).
All that said, hopefully Steam or MAUI or something comes along to aid the developers. I too, believe Linux has some good tools. It just can be apples and oranges some times. With only a small interested cadre in native Linux, I can see why the focus of the developers is elsewhere. With so many cross platform implementations of software, it's easy to think it's easy to port. But as a programmer, depending on the tools used in the original development, it ain't so easy at times.
I did set up a dual boot for just running my favorite emulator native on Linux. I found the speed returned for the old rig.
But Thank you, developers, for an awesome product. Keep your focus where it needs to be. I understand.