Given many new handhelds coming on the scene and general disinterest of Microsoft to support the market, do you think SteamOS will take place of default OS the same way Android did on phones some time ago?

  • CleanDefinition@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wine already existed but it took many years to get Proton to where it is now, and it’s still not perfect. I doubt they would want to start all over now that things are finally working.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that they’d start over. Wine isn’t an emulator and doesn’t emulate instructions. Something like qemu-user would presumably run Wine (which would itself be running the game).

      In a way, Proton/Wine is a much harder problem because there’s so much in terms of API that needs implemented.