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1173 points davikr | 7 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source | bottom
1. mystifyingpoi ◴[12 Nov 25 19:16 UTC] No.45904772[source]▶
Linus Torvalds was right. Valve will save the Linux desktop.
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2. metalliqaz ◴[12 Nov 25 19:20 UTC] No.45904838[source]▶
...by emulating WinAPI
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3. flohofwoe ◴[12 Nov 25 19:35 UTC] No.45905132[source]▶
And nothing wrong with that, the classic Win32 API is actually quite decent, especially the small subset needed for games. And it has the incredible advantage that it doesn't change since Microsoft doesn't care about Windows anymore ;)
4. sph ◴[12 Nov 25 22:05 UTC] No.45907467[source]▶
Heh, who cares. I can play games and my OS doesn’t spy on me.
5. npteljes ◴[12 Nov 25 22:36 UTC] No.45907852[source]▶
The funny thing would be for Wine to then extend the WinAPI, and software beginning to use that extension.
6. osn9363739 ◴[12 Nov 25 23:23 UTC] No.45908339[source]▶
I thought it was a translation layer? Not emulation right?
7. SchemaLoad ◴[12 Nov 25 23:30 UTC] No.45908412[source]▶
The original comment by Linus was that Valve would not accept the current state of things where to distribute a program on Linux you need to create a different package for every single distro. Which is true, Steam with Proton has pushed a single stable platform where you can publish a single build and it works everywhere. In desktop mode of SteamOS everything is installed through Flatpak.