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Linux gaming has been developing in the opposite direction for a while, moving away from even x86 Linux native ports and toward running x86 Windows games under
by fulafel 4y ago
Linux gaming has been developing in the opposite direction for a while, moving away from even x86 Linux native ports and toward running x86 Windows games under emulation.
- kccqzy 4y agoThey are running x86 Windows games under Wine. Remember that Wine stands for Wine is not an emulator.
- fulafel 4y agoThe recursive acronym tradition of course (GNU's Not Unix, Eine Is Not Emacs etc) traditionally implied the implementation being superset or better than the thing it's replacing and referencing in the acronym. Wine FAQ concludes > "Wine is not just an emulator" is more accurate. Thinking of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other things it is. Wine's "emulator" is really just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interface with the Wine API replacement.
- foresto 4y agoTry to remember that hardware emulation is not the only kind of emulation. Wine (written as WinE when I first encountered it, IIRC) emulates the Windows runtime environment.