Comment by dllthomas

Whenever a point such as that is brought up, I think it is important to keep in mind that Linux users typically (a) know that bug reports are a thing, and (b) often have the technical skills to give a better description of bugs that "it does not work".

That said, I would not fault the makers of Planetary Annihilation for prioritizing bugs according to the size of their customer bases.

> Releasing a Linux version is pretty much never economically viable.

Maybe. And more to the point, even if it were often viable it might not be in a particular case, and the developers likely have a better sense of that then I do. Which is one part of why I'm not complaining.

> Planetary Annihilation made a Linux version and despite representing only <0.1% of sales Linux users accounted for >20% of bug reports[0]. That's pretty damning.

Damning of what?

Daming of the economics? Those numbers could hold despite it being tremendously profitable - it depends on how many bug reports there are relative to sales, how much you're spending per bug report, etc. It's fundamentally looking at the wrong thing. What portion of Linux users had issues? If it's high, maybe that's a big reason you didn't get more Linux sales.

Damning of the platform? Insofar as it's the fault of the platform. It's true that there's fragmentation. It's also true that less effort is often put into the Linux ports, and there are nonetheless plenty of games that I can play without problems.

Damning of Linux gamers? Submitting a bug report is a virtue, not a vice.

Damning of the developers? I don't think that's what you were saying.