GitHub - RoundSalmon4/blended-strawberry: UNOFFICIAL repository for building macOS and Windows versions of the Strawberry Music Player.
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UNOFFICIAL repository for building macOS and Windows versions of the Strawberry Music Player. - RoundSalmon4/blended-strawberry
  • upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    I don’t think wanting people to suffer is a great goal but to each their own.

    To be fair, building the binary is the same regardless of OS. The creator just decided to send the windows and Mac binaries off to a third party server and then paywall access. You can see this in the build.yml of the original repo.

    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      The reason macOS and Windows releases are closed to sponsors is because Strawberry has mainly had one contributor/developer over several years. Maintaining releases for macOS and Windows is a lot of additional work, and requires hardware and build environments, building and maintaining all libraries Strawberry depends on, and we also have to pay for a Apple developer account for signed macOS releases.

      From the official website.

    • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      51·
      1 day ago

      Microsoft’s recent efforts to make Windows worse have been great for Linux adoption. Anything that makes using Windows a worse experience is good.