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I wonder if at some point Wine on Linux will become better than Windows itself.
For most stuff wine is working better than on Windows. Thats why people actually import wine drivers to their real Windows install
Yo what people do that? Gnarly.
for Deus Ex Randomizer, we include the DXVK DLLs as part of the Windows installation automatically, because it runs better and smoother and with less issues
(we run vulkaninfo to check compatibility first, we check support for VK_KHR_maintenance6 or Vulkan 1.4 or newer, otherwise you don't get DXVK)
https://github.com/Die4Ever/deus-ex-randomizer/blob/master/src/installer/Install/init.py#L123-L151
I did not know this was a thing 🤯
So why dont any of my apps work then? Im super happy gaming is about 85% working, but in the apps space its got to be less that 40%
The funding (valve paying crossover devs) has the focus on games, almost nobody is purchasing crossover for apps
For games it's already better, I get a few extra fps on my low-end laptop with integrated graphics and the best part is that I don't need to worry about games leaving traces/trash in the system as they are placed in individual prefixes
I have an old mid range gaming rig and I also get improved performance on linux mint with steam proton
Except cassette beasts (for me) 😔
Literally saves are outside the Prefix for some reason. Apparently has to do with a heroic flatpak quirk 😒
@inzen @mr_MADAFAKA as soon as the kernel rewrite happened, this is nearly guaranteed. https://augsburg.social/@schtobia/115767277911084452
Oh wow, all the legacy software would be stuck on old windows or have to move to linux. If I got that right.
@inzen yeah, that would be terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCXCqp1U5Y
They could implement a compatibility layer themselves, Apple managed to keep compatibility moving from PPC to x86 and then to ARM
There was an update to that post, where the author said it was a "misinterpretation" and that it was just a research project.
@ashleythorne true! But the Win32 ABI was the "holy grail" of Microsoft. You can run a Win95 application written under Borland C++ today! That they even _considering_ of breaking that, would be *unthinkable* a few years ago.
There was some experiment they did in the mid 2000a that was also going to be completely incompatible. It went nowhere.