Comment by capitol_

4 days ago

And yet, without the software for Linux gaming, there is no Linux gaming.

Very hard to falsify such a statement.

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pjmlp  4 days ago

Software written for Windows, running with a translation layer on GNU/Linux.

  • chrisldgk  4 days ago

    The translation layer doesn’t really matter though, does it? If a user installs a game and it runs the same, the user doesn’t care about the translation layer inbetween. If installing and running a game on Linux is the same as running it on windows, there’s no reason to prefer one over the other for gaming.

    • pjmlp  4 days ago

      It certainly does, because it allows game studios to keep ignoring GNU/Linux, even when they happen to have Android/Linux games written with the NDK, it is a Valve's problem.

  • graynk  4 days ago

    is there a point somewhere in this statement?

    • 2b3a51  4 days ago

      Not the parent or grandparent poster and not a gamer.

      The echo in my mind from the statement was along the following lines:

      I can do everything at work remotely from my Linux laptop as they use Microsoft365/Sharepoint/Teams/Outlook and all. I can just log in via Chromium and noone knows any different with one exception: the finance portal. I have to be on an employer owned Windows PC to do that one thing as it is the last 'native program' needed. Moral: enterprise-ish stuff is happening via the Web browser.

      Steam et al financing WINE/Proton and generally hammering all the sharp edges out of the compatibility layer for running Windows software on Linux. Moral: Complex Windows native software can be run under Linux.

      So, at some point in the future, does Microsoft just phase out Windows? Replace it with a really well engineered Linux with compatibility environment for legacy software?

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