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[–] 109 points 3 days ago (7 children)

In Linux land, "not supported on" and "doesn't work on" are two very different things.

Ran into this the other day, when an update broke a game I was playing. Checked the game forum and the developer said that the workaround was to move a DLL up one level in the directory. When people asked if that solution would work for every distro, the developer would only say that it's supported on steam deck, since that's what they are testing on. Of course, that solution works on all distros, as far as I can tell, but the developer isn't going to test and verify that.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 days ago

    Ran into this the other day, when an update broke a game I was playing. Checked the game forum and the developer said that the workaround was to move a DLL up one level in the directory.

    Hello, fellow Elder Scrolls Online player.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    That's not exclusive to Linux. That's what it means everywhere.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I'm my experience, "Not supported on Mac" or "Not supported on Windows" very much means that it won't work.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    In my past live I used to be a video editor for a tv network and remember one of the technicians walking by with the Avid guy (video editing software) and telling him that he was able to install and work with Avid {version number} in Windows {version number} and the Avid guy was like not supported doesn't mean isn't going to work, it's mean that if broke in the middle of a project and you lost everything done we're going to close your ticket without giving you any support

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