Bjoern

It's good that you know all that, but a blurry "some filters work, some do not" is just the paintbrush approach you're critizising. If you want to help Laminar and Reshade users, start investigating which exact filters do and do not work and write a guide for safe use of Reshade in X-Plane (do not forget the big, red "no support with Reshade running" disclaimer on the first page) and post it where it gets most public exposure. Although it (extremely likely) won't change Laminar's mind (why should they take responsibility for bugs in third party software used in their product?), I'm sure they'll appreciate having to click "Reject" on Reshade related bug reports less often.

Must be.

Those filters are implemented on the GPU driver level. Same priciple to what tinted glasses do to your perception of your surroundings. If something goes wrong, you just take them off and file a complaint with the manufacturer. Reshade is like a third party DIY kit that reroutes the signals between your eye nerve and brain through a chip in order to apply all sorts of fancy filters. It may work for some, while others will have issues. You will surely understand that a neuro- or eye surgeon will not be happy about having to deal with what amounts to reckless beehaviour when they could spend their time to curing actual medical issues like natural blindness instead.

Not sure why the proprietary Nvidia-only DLSS is always demanded when the open source FSR 3.x works in the same way and is GPU agnostic, causing less maintenance issues for Laminar.

That's basically feature parity with X-Plane, where you request an ange turn from the default pushback, but get pushed straight back all the way into the grass or other concourse instead. (Well, at least you get pushed.)

If it can still be purchased, X-Plane 10 is an okay-ish choice for system 2. Don't worry about 11 and 12, as they won't be fun on that hardware at all. Just note that anything older than XP12 is end of life and won't receive official support. A few years ago, menu rendering was completely broken in WINE. Is that still so?

Integrated updater and (hopefully) curation, so you're not tempted to buy add-ons that were made for a legacy X-Plane release and are unmaintained and unsupported in the current one.

The Sidewinder FFB2 is the B-52 of joysticks. It just keeps going and going and going and going and going...

That's not possible.

They don't want to maintain stuff anymore and made it freeware?! Your move, Carenado*! (*X-Plane portfolio)

Free alternative: https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/98823-x-addon-oxide/

If you have a Navigraph suscription for MSFS, it will also apply to X-Plane and the best option for a 182 is also free, btw: https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/96575-cessna-182s/ Sooner or later, you will spend money on add-ons for sure, but sticking to freeware at first is a good entry point. Sold! Now I want a dinosaur* island for X-Plane. (*No feathers, i.e. no heresy.)

You might want to make it clear on the library page that Live mode is for Windows only. Maybe you can use luasocket (https://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/home.html; included as a FlyWithLua module) to make the http calls to the APIs in a more OS agnostic fashion.

Why spend cash when you can keep busy with $0 aircraft of very high authenticity like Zibo's 738 (and by extension maybe the LevelUp 737s), the default A330, the default Citation X, the C90B Evo, Rotorsim's EC-135, Nhadrian's Yak-18T?

It's surprisingly painless on Linux nowadays.