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The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it

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196 points generichuman | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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ecef9-8c0f-4374 ◴[02 Apr 25 12:52 UTC] No.43556104[source]▶
I bought 3 linux games on DVD between 2006 and 2016. I stopped buying linux games and instead started again buying windows games. Because there is no easy way to run them. On the other hand I can just run myst1993 and most of windows games without much hustle via wine. Wine is linux only stable abi
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1. HideousKojima ◴[02 Apr 25 13:40 UTC] No.43556560[source]▶
The most annoying part to me is that Linus et all make not breaking compatibility their #1 goal (only rarely superseded by security and performance concerns) but all of the other libraries on top of the kernel don't seem to care about that at all and break things willy-nilly.