> this is almost as much work as implementing Windows itself, something which took Microsoft thousands of person-years. And if you make one tiny mistake or leave out one function that an application needs, that application will crash.
Since 2004, we now have Proton which does very well to run most Windows games on Linux.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 29.2 ms ] threadIt's fascinating, though, to read it from 2023 and judge how astute the observations were or weren't.
Since 2004, we now have Proton which does very well to run most Windows games on Linux.
(I've NOT done so in this case as we're now 4 days on, but anyone else is welcome to do so, and titles can be changed fairly late in the game.)