Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by maccard on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:46AM
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> Yes you can on the android emulator. The biggest issue is compu arch in that case.
If I have to go and install one, I can do that on Windows.
Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by nullindividual on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:14AM
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Microsoft even supplies the subsystem [0].
Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by voidr on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:28AM
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> Yes you can on the android emulator. The biggest issue is compu arch in that case.
I can also download VirtualBox and run all Windows programs, that would mean that all Windows apps are Linux apps?
> Yes you can for the most part
You can't statically link glibc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/3392
glibc can break stuff: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/08/valve-dev-understandab...
I had binaries break because the newer version if openssl was put under a slightly different name.
Re:Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers
by WorldMaker on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:07PM
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> I can also download VirtualBox and run all Windows programs, that would mean that all Windows apps are Linux apps?
WINE is not even an emulator, or so its name says.
Yes you can on the android emulator.
> I cannot compile a program on one version of the same distro and run it on another version of the same distro
Yes you can for the most part (unless it uses a capability provided by a newer kernel which is super rare and mostly limited to system tools, and less for "apps"). Actually that is what makes containers and flatpak possible.