• Helix 🧬
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    11 year ago

    Linux is known for breaking compatibility with old games

    Which ones exactly? I recently played the DOOM 3 Linux version and it worked after swapping out LibGL. If you ship Linux game with the Steam or a flatpak runtime they’ll probably run in 10 years still. Whereas you might already run into problems updating Windows 10 to 11…

    • poVoqOPM
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      11 year ago

      Try playing some old Loki releases or stuff like UT2004. Sure, there might be work-arounds, but the likelihood to be able to run the original Windows release in WINE with minimal tinkering is much higher.