An interesting and important look at the development of Factorio’s Linux-native port from an actual developer: the platform in general, Wayland, GNOME’s bullshit, and dependencies.
An interesting and important look at the development of Factorio’s Linux-native port from an actual developer: the platform in general, Wayland, GNOME’s bullshit, and dependencies.
Factorio runs amazing on Linux, probably the best game I’ve played on the platform.
Factario and vintage story are the two best indies iv ever played with native support.
Absolutely fantastic.
I don’t know if this is still the case, but Linux was the only platform that could save in the background because they were forking the process to do so.
They mentioned it at the bottom of the blog: works ok Linux and macos. And they want you to enable it because there a bug they’re trying to reproduce.
I remember reading they did port this to windows, using the same kind of process, but it was originally only on Linux because the forking process was so easily implemented.
Is it that difficult to fork on Windows?
I don’t believe it is if you know what you’re doing, but not as easy on Linux.