If it wasn't for NeXT and Valve we would still be in the dark ages. Linux sucked for gaming until Valve poured all that money into Wine.

I started with Windows 98. Didn't experience OSX until 2010. 9 years wasted.

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pjmlp a day ago | parent [-]

It still sucks for gaming, those are Windows games running on Proton, not much different from running arcade games with MAME, Amiga games with WinUAE,...

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queenkjuul a day ago | parent [-]

I think it is different. As someone joked, "thanks to Wine, Win32 is the 'stable Linux ABI'" -- translating system calls is a lot different than emulating hardware, and the results prove it

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pjmlp a day ago | parent [-]

And to target it, studios use Windows alongside Visual Studio.

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