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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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