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2003 me was optimistic that wine was a dead-end, with games like Neverwinter Nights, and Quake 3 Arena having native linux releases. The Year of Linux on the D

by eterm 11mo ago

2003 me was optimistic that wine was a dead-end, with games like Neverwinter Nights, and Quake 3 Arena having native linux releases. The Year of Linux on the Desktop was near, and wine would surely be a temporary stop-gap.

TheCycoONE 11mo ago
Turns out Linux needed a stable abi for games and Wine provided.
- buildbot 11mo ago
  Which amusingly, also serves as a stable API for Windows now too.
- Zambyte 11mo ago
  Such is life dealing with propriety software.
miffy900 11mo ago
for the longest time, no one in linux land cared about API stability or backward compatibility - then app/game developers realised if they could port a portion of Win32 to Linux via WINE, they could just target the win32 API or at least a portion of it and so long as WINE was installed, their app/game would always work. i find it a bit ironic; desktop Linux is being enabled by re-implementing APIs from another OS.
- wavemode 11mo ago
  It's like they always say: win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux.