> One benefit that I can think of is a niche, overriding DLLs and SOs to provide updated functionality, for example, on my Windows 10 machine, when I want to pl

> One benefit that I can think of is a niche, overriding DLLs and SOs to provide updated functionality, for example, on my Windows 10 machine, when I want to play a game that has 3dfx vooodoo glide support, I usually use that, but I replace the glide2x.dll with a new version from the nGlide project, which translates the glide api into a modern API and also gives me control over resolution and stuff that the original program does not know anythig about.. This is such a cool idea... if only