Comment by Shorel
4 hours ago
The most stable Linux API is Wine/Win32.
There are many older games I can't install on Linux anymore, because they used an older SDL1 or some particular X11 version or some GPU driver that's no longer available for the current kernel.
The exact same game, Windows version, can be installed and runs flawlessly on both Linux and Windows.
So, native Vulkan executables? Sure, if they can continue to run in 20 years.
Those games did weird things. Every distro still ships SDL1, x11 didn’t really break API, and requiring a specific driver is obviously broken from the start. I won’t say none of this happens but the platform isn’t to blame there.
Even glibc breaks ABI. The linux userspace ABI is too unstable and games don't have to be doing weird things to hit it.
Just like for OS/2, what a great success it was.
It's a different situation, OS/2 was significantly more expensive than Windows, Linux is free.
The development tools for OS/2 were worse and far more expensive.
It’s working right now, what are you arguing against.
It seems to be working, that is the thing building castles in foreign kingdoms.
There are a lot of older games that won't run on windows 11 as well. In fact most of my games no longer work on windows 11.
Your point?
Yeah? Most? So like what?