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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by pjmlp on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:00AM (#46825986)
Just like for OS/2, what a great success it was.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by aleph_minus_one on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:34AM (#46826462)
The development tools for OS/2 were worse and far more expensive.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by groundzeros2015 on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:35AM (#46826476)
It’s working right now, what are you arguing against.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by pjmlp on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:26PM (#46827173)
It seems to be working, that is the thing building castles in foreign kingdoms.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by groundzeros2015 on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:12PM (#46829967)
What do you mean? There is a whole library of thousands of win32 games spanning more than 2 decades and the community is tracking and reporting bugs in each and classifying their level of performance.

That’s one of the most successful computer projects I’ve heard of.

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by pjmlp on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:11AM (#46834537)
Sure, if one ignores all the existing emulators for previous computer generations, and game consoles.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by groundzeros2015 on Saturday January 31, 2026 @08:14PM (#46842674)
If you want hardware emulation you can use a vm like virtual box…

I don’t even know what you’re arguing now.

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by tapoxi on Friday January 30, 2026 @01:58PM (#46828399)
It's a different situation, OS/2 was significantly more expensive than Windows, Linux is free.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by jdkfkgkkdbkd on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:05PM (#46831201)
os/2 2.1 was free during some periods in the 90s, I and several friends got it just for the free floppies. Though none of us paid for windows either, I guess it was free as well.
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