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Re:GOG Has Had to Hire Private Investigators to Track Down I... by oneshtein on Saturday October 18, 2025 @03:50AM (#45625671)
Android is not backward compatible. Many old apps are crashing or refuse to work on newer Androids.
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Re:GOG Has Had to Hire Private Investigators to Track Down I... by izacus on Saturday October 18, 2025 @02:41PM (#45629485)
Most of them aren't though. Significantly more old games work on Android than they do on Linux desktop distros.

This is why everyone is dropping Linux support and targeting Proton instead.

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Re:GOG Has Had to Hire Private Investigators to Track Down I... by tredre3 on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:29PM (#45630490)
The only time I've seen old Android games stop working is when they use native 32bit libraries and most Android devices are now unable to run them.

Other than that Android backwards compatibility has been quite good, much better than Desktop Linux anyway!

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