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I'm talking about his complaint that Steam does not have any contingency plans for running games on old hardware due to them not supporting old versions of Wind

• ethbr1 1y ago
  * Assuming that game is supported on Linux While compatibility has improved a lot, it's difficult to argue it's on par with a game on as-released hardware + OS. There will always be gaps or altered functionality in compatibility. And unfortunately, because of the recency bias of popularity, there won't be large enough player bases to justify corporate fixes. It needs to be a priority despite finances (e.g. GoG) or community driven (e.g. Kaldaien and the moding community). And it seems fair for the latter to be pissed off when Valve intentionally creates extra work for them, because either Valve doesn't care or it makes business sense for them. And if nobody cares... troublesome games just disappear. Which seems tragic.
  • const_cast 1y ago
    > While compatibility has improved a lot, it's difficult to argue it's on par with a game on as-released hardware + OS. Agreed, but at this point Wine is a better Win32 implementation than Win32. You typically have more success running old programs under Wine than under new versions of Windows.
    • ethbr1 1y ago
      Granted! But at some point you run into the console emulation problem: random piece of software used undefined-behavior dependent quirk of hardware / OS / libraries, that was fixed in emulation. Happens less in PC, because compute power progression, but I wouldn't dare say there aren't any such programs out there.