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Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by erremerre on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:19AM (#41376870)
And yet, the win32 is the only one that is confirmed to work. Example: Game Neo Scavenger is available for linux with binaries for them. They dont work in any modern linux because (I believe) they were compiled for a 32bits version of linux.

Do you know how you can play the game on linux? Yes, using the windows version with lutris, which is 32bits too.

Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by notpushkin on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:37AM (#41377726)
Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team by ChocolateGod on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:16AM (#41379148)
That doesn't help, most Linux distributions do not maintain ABI (library-program linkage) compatibility between major releases, and in the case of rolling distros half the system has to be recompiled when things such as libcurl, openssl, libc etc change. If these change, it's possible that anything compiled agaisnt the system version of it will no longer work without being recompiled

Windows goes back and beyond for compatibility with existing compiled software and Wine inherits that, is partially why Windows versions under Wine often have a higher chance of running than the native versions (ARK is a great example)

Projects like Flatpak attempt to solve this by the use of runtimes.