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Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems'
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VanguardLH wrote: Is Linus even a gamer? Oh wait, yeah, not that big a selection for Linux. Linux is not tied with Windows for gaming. Take a gander at: Fedora 31 | Features, Gaming, and New Daily Driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8oBlOTBho You didn't provide a timemark for the related content, and I wasn't going to watch all of the 22 minute video, so I moved the slider to skim through it. The author started talking about Steam on Linux which could now detect the native OS platform to know which game titles to present. Steam represents about 78% of the marketshare for computer games. I saw something about them using a compatibility shim to run Windows games on Linux platforms eliminating the need to run Steam and the Windows games inside of WINE. Wonder how the benchmarks reflect the performance of a Windows game running inside of WINE versus running the Windows game atop Steam's shim. https://itsfoss.com/steam-play/ Oh, so Steam Play simply provides a fork of WINE as its shim between the native OS platform and the Windows-only game. The Windows games will likely be impacted the same whether ran inside of WINE or Steam's variant of WINE. I didn't even bother to address running anything Windows inside of WINE or via any other emulation layer, like VMWare Player for Linux running Windows as a guest OS and then running a Windows game inside of that virtual machine. That something is doable doesn't mean it should be. That still means the games were *not* developed for the Linux platform. They were written for the Windows platform. Guess I should've qualified my statement by saying: "Oh wait, yeah, not that big a selection of native Linux games. " Do hardcore gamers even bother with WINE? Conversely, everything Linux can be played on Windows, too, so the user could use a Windows platform to play native Windows games and emulated Linux games. Is there much draw for that scenario? You can even play Android apps on Windows by using a shim aka emulator, like Bluestacks. There's native-on-native, and then there are less-than-ideal workarounds. |
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