Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux

Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by smileybarry on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:31AM (#24754680)

They still do. I have Win95 games that were broken in WinXP but started working in Win7 x64, or ones that broke in Win7 x64 and started working again in Win10.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by worble on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:32PM (#24756192)

I'm having the opposite experience, I tried playing an old DirectX 9 game the other day and it was unplayable in Windows. It did at least boot and menus worked fine, but for some reason for another the framerate in-game was so low it was unplayable. A few days later I tried it on my linux machine with Wine and it was perfect (thank god for DXVK).

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by garaetjjte on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:57PM (#24770801)

dgVoodoo is great for old DirectX games: http://dege.freeweb.hu/

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by merb on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:04PM (#24758129)

thats not true, plenty of games needed win 10 support. like blizzard games (diablo (2), warcraft (3), etc.) and many others even age of empires 1/2 needed to support windows 10 via patches and did not work out of the box.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by smileybarry on Monday October 12, 2020 @05:48PM (#24759813)

It definitely varies by game, but that's always been the case. One of the games I mentioned was broken by XP but fixed by Windows 7.

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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by 48bb-9a7e-dc4f2 on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:59PM (#24756555)

"Works for me (TM)"

Windows Desktop Evangelism playbook hasn't changed since 2000.

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