What does Team Dolphin think of Linux?

[magmarock64]

I've used Linux on and off for about 5 years and found my selfing hating it. It's good to see something other then Windows get support, but it really isn't for me. That being said I noticed a lot of developers of Dolphin use it. It's also recommended by the team in numerous posts to use Windows so I'm just interested in their take on Linux, Windows and what it's like to both use and develop for these OS's.

[Helios]

Afaik the majority of regular dolphin contributors use Linux. Performance differences are typically because Windows GPU drivers are faster on some vendors

[JMC47]

For a lot of features to work perfectly, Linux is needed. Passthrough works better on Linux, for instance.

[magmarock64]

Is it done more because it's needed for testing or because they prefer it for personal use?

[Helios]

Many prefer it for personal use.

[JosJuice]

For a lot of features to work perfectly, Linux is needed. Passthrough works better on Linux, for instance.

Which features does that apply to? I can only remember USB passthrough and BBA emulation.

[Anti-Ultimate]

There's some ways you could make the dolphin experience better. I posted a suggestion about distributing it as AppImage, but no dev has responded to my threads or suggestion on the issue tracker.

For passthrough and controllers to work you need admin access anytime you launch it though, maybe that's the issue, i wouldn't know.

[leolam]

There are some more advanced features which only work on Linux (MemoryWatcher, pipe input).

I posted a suggestion about distributing it as AppImage, but no dev has responded to my threads or suggestion on the issue tracker.

IIRC, we don't want to handle distribution ourselves. Rather, we just leave it up to distro maintainers to package Dolphin.

[magmarock64]

Are you a developer? I don't see the green tag on your username.

[JosJuice]

Are you a developer? I don't see the green tag on your username.

Yes.