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I bought 3 linux games on DVD between 2006 and 2016. I stopped buying linux games and instead started again buying windows games. Because there is no easy way to run them. On the other hand I can just run myst1993 and most of windows games without much hustle via wine. Wine is linux only stable abi

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> Wine is linux only stable abi

https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

The most annoying part to me is that Linus et all make not breaking compatibility their #1 goal (only rarely superseded by security and performance concerns) but all of the other libraries on top of the kernel don't seem to care about that at all and break things willy-nilly.

As if a windows game from 2006 is going to run on windows 11 :)

I was able to run Age of Empires 2 on Windows 11. It didn't like running on an ultrawide, but it worked well enough at smaller resolutions.

a 3d game…

I've just installed and run Star Wars Empire at war (2005) from steam, it seems to run just fine in WQHD. The UI isn't even blurry

On steam? Games that get updated are updated? Do you have any more groundbreaking revelations?

instead of being toxic you could point any particular one to check. If I don't have it purchased I'll grab the OG scene rel.

Well age of empires 2 didn't work on windows 7 and vista for example. So ok now it works but it wasn't continuous.

Star trek elite force won't work (at least it didn't for me), star wars jedi outcast and jedi knight are in the same situation. Yes you find some of them on gog, which means they needed changes to work again.

The 2006-engine version of Half-Life 2: Episode 1 runs on Windows 10/11 with no configuration [1], outside of getting Steam to download it. I recall installing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on a Windows 11 machine, which just needed Directx 9c to run.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=28643...

all of the half life work fine natively on linux as well on steam. Do you have something more challenging?

Because valve puts in the ongoing effort. Tell loki software they need to update the binaries of their games. Oh wait they don't exist anymore.

Valve puts ongoing effort also on the windows games… yet a sibling comment tried a game from valve instead of trying a game from a CD to do a fair comparison -_-'

Fair comparsion? This thread is about how you can't run old software on linux and are better of running windows software via wine. Running random versions instead of specific software versions is the point.

This thread is about you running around with the goalposts :D

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