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Bottles have been around longer than Linux containers, I'm afraid. The world of Windows emulation on Linux pre-bottle was extremely difficult to say the least.
by mmastrac 3y ago
Bottles have been around longer than Linux containers, I'm afraid. The world of Windows emulation on Linux pre-bottle was extremely difficult to say the least.
You're juggling a dozen dependencies, some of which are closed-source binaries, some are blackbox replacements, and each game or application is a special snowflake requiring very specific versions of these (and perhaps some tweaks here and there).
- Dalewyn 3y ago>each game or application is a special snowflake requiring very specific versions of these (and perhaps some tweaks here and there). It's worth emphasizing every time this subject rolls around just how impressive Microsoft's commitment to backwards compatibility in Windows really is.