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From a user's perspective they're running on Linux, though from the games' perspective they're running on Windows, thanks to Proton (based on Wine).
by kibwen 3y ago
From a user's perspective they're running on Linux, though from the games' perspective they're running on Windows, thanks to Proton (based on Wine).
- jeroenhd 3y agoHaving written even basic tools in native code for Linux and run into compatibility issues (glibc versions, ugh), I'm not surprised. Wine is probably the best cross-distro Linux platform, especially for closed source products that don't get compiled for every specific repo. Flatpak/AppImage would also work but that lacks the raw system access that many games depend on (even if that system access is secretly emulated by Wine).
- haunter 3y agoSee the famous "Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux" article https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624