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Subject: What's Your Go-to OS Date: Sun Mar 02 2025 07:36 am
From: Arelor To: Accession

  Re: What's Your Go-to OS
  By: Accession to Nightfox on Sun Feb 23 2025 06:29 am

 > The last bit of news on their website is from November 2023. Has it been
 > abandoned already? Their site also says 10% of games have been verified, 60%
 > are 'playable' (whatever that means, still somewhat broken possibly?), and
 > 30% is unsupported. I'd definitely agree that's a little ways, and not
 > making strides by any means.

"Playable" usually means the game is perfectly fine, but has some issue that pre
vents it from being considered perfect. Usually it is something stupid like the 
fonts of some menu not being the proper size. If a game is deemed "Playable" the
n it is most often possible to play the game from start to finish.

Wine and the like are actually quite performant. They are native grade, I dare s
ay. What they do for the most part is to hijack library calls from the game and 
direct them to Windowesque libraries. It is not like you are running a Windows k
ernel in the background.

These projects are going nowhere. Steam is just making so much money from sellin
g SteamDecks. Besides, they have a strategic interest in not being dependant on 
Microsoft.


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