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Yeah, if you're doing a VPin, I can't fathom how you'd go in any other direction beyond academic exploration. I could understand that project not wanting a hard Windows dependency in its own capacity.

Lol, one thing at a time. I also have a VPin cab, but we're on the LB forums and LB doesn't come in to play there (at least for me).

Yeah, it's not 100% yet. But it's gotten a lot better very rapidly and continues to do so - even the NVIDIA driver situation has finally turned a corner. A lot of what you just described though fighting drivers and BIOS settings actually matches an experience I've been fighting for months with one of my Windows PCs 😅. I have a motion platform but I'll admit it's not focused around arcade racer emulation, so my experience there is limited (though I've heard similar things about Fanatec hardware and Linux being a problem). When it comes to cabs, a lot of the cab builders were on Win 7 forever, and only just recently been retooling for Win 10, from my experience. Win 11 is almost certainly off the table for most of them, even with Win 10 EOL, which is.... fun, especially entering the AI age with a legacy and unpatched OS. 😕

I mean, my only counterpoint to your counterpoint is that we're talking about LaunchBox and emulation, and emulators, and emulator setup, and launch configurations, and imports, and file type matching, and bit inverted roms, yadda yadda yadda. All of this already clears the "for enthusiasts" bar. If you're putting together a gaming frontend, I don't think it's Linux that's holding you back. We're not talking about migrating Grandma to Linux and wondering if she can handle it.

Things are genuinely different today than they were back then, for many reasons. Never before has the desire to exit Windows been as strong as it is today due to spy tech and the decline of the stability of Windows, things like Microsoft account requirements for Windows 11, etc. Never before has the stability of the Linux desktop ecosystem been as strong as it is today. Valve's investment into Proton has also created a trail specifically for gamers that everyone else is benefiting massively from. There are certainly still things here and there which creates a Windows dependency for some things for some people. However, most of these challenges have been adequately overcome in the open source community where it matters.

I just want to give my biggest heartfelt thank-you to the team on the 14.0 release. For large library users, the performance improvements are dramatic and evident. I can switch into any platform and even the "All Games" view with virtually no latency. Bravo!

Feedback thread here: https://feedback.launchbox-app.com/p/support-for-linux-operating-systems The devs have to feel it, too, right? The pressure to unshackle themselves from a hard Windows dependency? I totally understand how we ended up here, but world affairs are causing people to change their behaviors and preferences in rapid order. There are still a lot of people trying to withhold from a Windows 11 upgrade. LaunchBox is the biggest blocker to me going Linux. I've invested too much in my LB/BB setup to walk away from it, but have a very strong desire to divest from Windows.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the community rally to maintain what many of us consider to be a necessary and critical plugin, but it's also a bit unsustainable.

Yeah, I track that thread. That build is not likely targeted for the new runtime version, which is why I ask. It is also effectively being vibe-hacked back into submission. Those of us tracking that thread understand that the plugin is operating on desperate fumes right now due to the disappearance of @fraganator. It needs a proper maintainer, preferably starting from the real code, and I'm not sure we're ever going to get it.

I see another .NET runtime update is on the list for the v13.28 release. Does this mean all our plugins are going to break again? I can't live without a working version of Archive Cache Manager 😅

I could be wrong but I don't think NeoTeo roms are supposed to be extracted. ACH can be configured to copy the files over without extraction, though, where the emulator will pick it up with its internal handling.

The disappearance of @fraganator and hacked fixes (that I'm grateful for) to this super important extension leave me anything but at-ease!

Thank you.

I've upgraded to 13.26 and tried to re-download media, but I'm still not getting any videos from Steam on the latest version. Anybody else having this issue?

I'm interested in this. Especially with the sunsetting of Win10 and the push to Win11, which is much more aggressive with data collection and privacy concerns. There's not a ton of games I can't play on Linux anymore, so I'm all in for a native Linux-friendly version of LB.