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If it wasn't for NeXT and Valve we would still be in the dark ages. Linux sucked for gaming until Valve poured all that money into Wine. I started with Windows
by jhatemyjob 7mo ago
If it wasn't for NeXT and Valve we would still be in the dark ages. Linux sucked for gaming until Valve poured all that money into Wine.
I started with Windows 98. Didn't experience OSX until 2010. 9 years wasted.
- pjmlp 7mo agoIt still sucks for gaming, those are Windows games running on Proton, not much different from running arcade games with MAME, Amiga games with WinUAE,...
- queenkjuul 7mo agoI think it is different. As someone joked, "thanks to Wine, Win32 is the 'stable Linux ABI'" -- translating system calls is a lot different than emulating hardware, and the results prove it
- pjmlp 7mo agoAnd to target it, studios use Windows alongside Visual Studio.
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- jhatemyjob 7mo agoAnd with the R&D that went into the Steam Frame, the difference between x64 and arm64 is becoming negligible. You can target x64 Windows and can reasonably expect it to run on Android via Winlator.