Re:Valve put their 'Pressure Vessel' container source for Li...
by toast0 on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:15PM
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> Why are your games breaking on a Windows update?
Because Microsoft gutted its in-house testing program in favor of moving fast and letting end users find the bugs.
A 3rd party containerized system could passthrough the interfaces that are known to work, massage those that need massaging, and catalog (with user consent) the ones that are unknown. Kind of like Microsoft's compatability modes, but managed by someone else, because Microsoft stopped caring, apparently.
Because Microsoft gutted its in-house testing program in favor of moving fast and letting end users find the bugs.
A 3rd party containerized system could passthrough the interfaces that are known to work, massage those that need massaging, and catalog (with user consent) the ones that are unknown. Kind of like Microsoft's compatability modes, but managed by someone else, because Microsoft stopped caring, apparently.