If you game/app runs on Wine, doesn't that reduce the pressure to develop a Linux port?

BadBadJellyBean 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Possibly but does it realistically matter? I don't care why my games run on linux I just care that they do. I encountered a few cases where the native version was inferior to the wine version (Cronos is one example). With wine improving there is very little downside to just using it.

	▲	Jblx2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Could there ever be a killer app for Linux? One that would cause a not-insignificant number of people to decide that Linux was worth switching to, even if there was some pain of moving away from Windows?

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ticulatedspline 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

short term yeah, probably hurts native ports since "why bother". Long term though if the market share for Linux is particularly high I could see more native development.

Either way my comment is intended as more humorous than truly insightful or prophetic.