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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:49AM (#33081207)
Do you think eventually Windows will drop 32-bit support like Mac OS X did? What will that mean for a lot of those games?
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by squarefoot on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:10AM (#33081482)
Ironically, by then the best Windows 32bit compatibility layer might come from Linux with WINE and other tools using it.

https://www.winehq.org/

https://lutris.net/

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:13AM (#33081527)
I hope so. The Steam Deck has been pretty nice but I hate leaving Steam and fiddling with Arch Linux and KDE to get non-Steam games working.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by happymellon on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:33AM (#33091275)
Don't support Epic and other stores that are hostile to Linux.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by davrosthedalek on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:58AM (#33097207)
Are they hostile, or do they just not support it? For example, are they actively making it harder on purpose to run the store with WINE?
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:35AM (#33094646)
I don't primarily play games on Linux, I play them on a console so I was trying to use the EA launcher to play some games I have access to elsewhere.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by account42 on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:18AM (#33150406)
WoW is already an optional component that is not always installed in server editions.
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by mattl on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:42AM (#33150596)
WoW is the name of the piece that runs 32 bit software? “Windows on Windows”?
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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by account42 on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:45AM (#33150638)
Yes, well more precisely WoW64 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64

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