Wine is not an emulator.

I know that Wine zealots use that as a meme, but please note that I haven’t said it was. (Not that it mattered for the users anyway.)

In the next few years we’ll reach the point where Linux can play more games than Windows can

Citation needed.

I’m sure there are Windows distributions which have some DOS emulator preinstalled. ;-)

Right, but you realise that’s a reverse engineered version of the game?

The source article we’re commenting on here largely argues that Linux is only halfway decent for gaming because of Wine, a reverse-engineered version of the Windows ABI/API. Are reverse-engineered versions a valid point or not?

Which is a good thing in my opinion. Constructive debates work better without wordless reactions.

Yes.

Just play it anywhere.

Why would privacy-conscious folks run a system that’s largely being developed by Microsoft, Red Hat and the NSA instead of a BSD?

Linux users hate reality, so they downvote comments. Made my day.

IBM killed OS/2, because they hate end users. IBM has a long history of making great end user products (awesome keyboards, great laptops, still good software) only to sell them to the highest bidder. All IBM execs can see are penguins with suitcases full of dollar bills. OS/2? End users loved it, but it didn’t run on mainframes. Killed. The Model M keyboard? End users loved it, but it was too durable, so it did not guarantee many sold units (because why would anyone buy a new Model M while the old one is still good?) -> rebranded as Unicomp and left to rot. (Typing this on a Unicomp PC122, but that’s a different story.) Thinkpads? Ah well, those are expensive. And they aren’t mainframes. Sold to the Chinese because ugh! End users! Lotus (SmartSuite, Notes)? Nice to have, but nope, too many end users. Ugh! End users!

100% of Windows games run on Windows. Just saying.

Good to know!

I did not know the internals of said stack. The ML thread is amusing though:

I’m even tired that whenever people add new repositories to api.gentoo.org, I have to go through that idiotic GitHub clickety-click UI to stop receiving notifications for everything that happens in these repositories.

I genuinely wonder why the Gentoo dev team even uses Microsoft GitHub for managing its infrastructure. Well, I wonder what will happen after the shutdown.

Darcs would not solve the problem in question, Portage does not support it either.

Technically true, but has that ever been a problem you actually had? I strongly believe that most people won’t ever need most features offered by many contemporary VCSs.

I will note the inevitable bursting of this ridiculous bubble after every grotesque increase in the already grotesque market value of this dump without a sensible business model (copying Google results is not a sensible business model) with even a little more malicious glee.

SVN certainly has its charm. However, I don’t need branches for a few ebuilds, and I generally tend to use the most efficient tool for a task, not necessarily the most popular one.

I didn’t feel like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut (or using a VCS optimised for millions of users rather than four files).

In my defence: the documentation states I’m allowed to use CVS. :-(

The con beats all pros.

It took me twenty minutes, this time. No manual work needed. :-) sysupgrade - reboot- sysmerge and pkg_add -u, done.