Re:Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So...
by sho_hn on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:20PM
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> Do you think that maybe instead of being likely to happen, it is likely to never happen due to wine being open source?
That's what I meant with the last paragraph. Linux doesn't come with a licensing cost; maintaining a working "Windows backend" to wine is effort. Just bundling with Linux seems lower effort and cheaper. Cf. also just about all of the system containerization trend and what's driving it - and it's in part API surface between the delivery and the system.
That's what I meant with the last paragraph. Linux doesn't come with a licensing cost; maintaining a working "Windows backend" to wine is effort. Just bundling with Linux seems lower effort and cheaper. Cf. also just about all of the system containerization trend and what's driving it - and it's in part API surface between the delivery and the system.