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I don't think we can count the AUR repository as the "default package" because:

1. AUR is a community driven project, for users, by users. Repos are not maintained by the Arch team.
2. Arch user needs to explicitely get out of their way to access and use AUR, it is not enabled by default
3. AUR repos are not even packages (usually). They are build-instructions. There are specific -bin repos that provide packaged binaries, but that was not the case here, because the emulators license doesn't allow that.

The issue here was that stenzek moved the emulator to a source-available license, which does not allow Arch to provide packages in their package repo. So people were using build instructions to build the emulator from source. And when that caused issues because something broke, people came to stenzek for support instead of the person maintaining the build instrucions.

Accepts Type-C

It took me a few seconds to realize you werent talking about shoving a USB Type C plug into there.

why would you shove things into it's mouth?

This is nothing new. Before the steam deck came out, Handheld PCs have already been ~~overpriced~~ expensive. Other manufacturers haven't bothered about affordability before, during ot after the steam deck.

That said, Gabe Newell said the steam deck was priced "painfully", which means they probably had very low margins on the hardware and are making it back on sales on their store. Other manufacturers do not have that luxury.

Personally, that reads to me that there already is en expiration date on the plugin version as well as the GOG extension.

Either way, while they are free to charge what they see fit, I was flabbergasted by the high price and it being a subscription. I'd argue it should never be their bread and butter. I see the target audience to be too niche for this to be a fulltime gig, I dont believe there's going to be enough users for this to be sustainable, which is (I guess) the reason they went for a SAAS subscription model.

Yes, the plugin version is open source, but I don't believe anyone is going to bother to fork it. Simply because there already is a sophisticated, quite advanced community project (Heroic) that does the job well on a steam deck, also works very well on the desktop, and uses the same backends (legendary, gogdl, nile) as JS.

And it really irks me, that they rely on free, open-source components for their proprietary, closed-source software to function. From what i understand, they are not in breach of the GPL license if they just invoke the binaries, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I've just watched the installation video and when they install Doom64 from Epic (around the 3:20 Minute mark), it mentioned legendary, a free and open-source alternative to the epic launcher. A bit of further digging we notice that junk-store uses gogdl and nile as well. I am absolutely baffled by this. This closed-source, proprietary $40/p.a. software is a wrapper (albeit a fancy one) for other, open-source launchers.

Now, i am sure theres a bit more to it than just invoking the binaries of these launchers, but personaly, I consider this shady.

The plugin version remains and will remain free according to the husband and wife team behind Junk Store. They’re very easy people to talk to if you need anything at all, and they have a passion for what they’re doing. I think it’s super shitty to call them greedy because they’re offering a paid option alongside the free one.

I'd like to point out, that the subscription to JS 2.0 is absolutely not there to keep the free version free. In their own FAQ on discord they are already on record stating that if the paid GOG plugin drops of in sales (not usage!), they are going to scale back or even stop maintaining the paid plugin as well as the decky version of JS.

Why are you getting ads on Lemmy

Because they are using a client that injects ads into its feed.

I believe Boost does that

I doubt this is going to be distributed via flathub, less likely even be maintained by your distro

The last update a few weeks ago said it was $40 per year.

Edit: its under "Learn more"