Some projects try to use a funding bar, that is shown to the user, when the funding is in risk the users know and donate more. The nag screen is effective, but if you are a donor already it can become somewhat annoying.

Thanks, that’s very useful, I noticed that the the donations are a in a low amount compared to the rest of the income, but it is more stable, if possible could you share your experience with the ko-fi platform and donations? Do you think it is an visibility problem, since it’s hard to break from dev sphere to mainstream?

I always imagined some sort of IP royalty, like you have an idea and implement it, then if someone build something over it for profit they need to pay a fixed percentage otherwise it would be free to use basically.

What about a modular software, a base version and the modules are paid ? It would maybe avoid ramification? And the user would have more freedom.

Did you check the temperature of the cpu and gpu? It might be a overheating problem that causes the fps drops.

Cloud services or features monetization are interesting, I’ve seen some companies do a community or a local version and the business version with more features.

I prefer AUR packages, but it depends on how many AUR dependencies it uses and how well maintained and used by others it is, I rely mainly on the official repo and try to use AUR and others in a complementary way, I also don’t run any AppImages, just the ones from open-source applications and that I trust minimally.

Why do you consider AppImages as last resort?

I can understand that in a distro the main repo need to be prioritized to avoid bloat of repetitive dependencies that could happen with a lot of AppImages.

I can’t understand why so many people are opposed to it as an supportive role from a practical and complementary perspective.

Canonical sure know how to name them.