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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

those low amount of players also account for like 70% of the bug reports

Those bug reports are often real bugs that affect other platforms too.

https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-dev-finds-that-linux-users-generate-more-better-bug-reports/

Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports submitted by Linux users were platform specific, that is, would only happen on Linux.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Turns out, the people who are more technically proficient and use software built and maintained by a community that necessitates bug reports, report bugs more often than the "it just (sometimes) works" OS users. Who knew?