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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by pjmlp on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:14PM (#46481637)
A reality slap.
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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by graynk on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:06PM (#46482684)
So no point to make then, cool, I can get back to playing games then
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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by pjmlp on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:43PM (#46483055)
Make sure to use MAME as well, those arcade games are also Linux, apparently.
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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by graynk on Sunday January 04, 2026 @05:57AM (#46486857)
1. Nobody said anything about Windows games being Linux games. We were talking about Linux gaming, which is gaming on Linux. Which - yeah - emulators also contribute to

2. Above being said, translation is not emulation and has much less overhead So many pointless semantics to dismiss something genuinely good and useful

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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by pjmlp on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:27AM (#46487316)
Translation is one form of emulation, because GNU/Linux still isn't Windows, at the end of the day.
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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by graynk on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:46AM (#46489023)
No, it is not. Right there in the name of WINE.
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