The situation in linux is coincidentally better by these games not being native linux builds, which lets users choose older WINE compatibility environments without impacting the rest of the system, I suppose.
I can’t blame anyone for thinking that. I guess I am saying that the situation would certainly be worse if these games were natively built for any other operating system.
Windows in general isn’t a good situation with respect to PC gaming longevity.
The situation in linux is coincidentally better by these games not being native linux builds, which lets users choose older WINE compatibility environments without impacting the rest of the system, I suppose.
https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/
I’m also saying that within a couple decades, I don’t think windows will exist. I say this as a user of Dos and Windows for almost 40 years
I can’t blame anyone for thinking that. I guess I am saying that the situation would certainly be worse if these games were natively built for any other operating system.
I wonder what you are on about after finishing Gabriel Knight 3 a few weeks ago and playing No One Lives Forever at the moment.
I’m saying windows is dying, and will not be useful in long term preservation, on the scale of decades.