Moving map support for X-Plane on Linux

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Thank you for showing interest in our future product improvements!

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  1. We generally do not communicate any ETAs. That remains true in this case.

  2. While it could be technically possible in theory, we are currently not convinced that we want to take the risk of providing a dedicated Linux version of Simlink for the many reasons already outlined earlier in this topic. Instead, we’re opening Simlink up slightly to expose an interface that developers can integrate with. This would enable the type of “community-maintained” integration mentioned earlier in this topic.

  3. No, I can not provide any timeline for when this update will be released.

We appreciate that there are users who want to use our products on Linux, and we obviously don’t want to stop anyone from doing so. However, we take pride in the high level of quality of our products and the support we provide for them, and we recognize that there are still too many question marks involved for us to safely say that we could uphold the same quality if we released an official Linux product.

This may change in the future as we have the opportunity to explore the possibilities and challenges! As of this moment, we are not focusing our efforts on a Linux product.

Kind Regards,
Malte

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Thanks for taking the decision to open up the interface so that an open source simlink alternative can be possible. With the end of Windows 10 and the intrusive policies of Microsoft in Windows 11 I think more and more people will be considering Linux as the platform of choice for flight simulation. We will look forward to what comes next.

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