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babypuncher
66 days ago
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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are be...
I have been arguing for years that Win32 is the most stable Linux ABI. Commercial games are all proprietary software, so they're more prone to breakage as the libraries and APIs they depend on change or even disappear over time.
naniwaduni
65 days ago
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"We now have a complete, futureproof free software stack with decades of backwards compatibility! It just has win32 in the middle."
(2019, from
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21776370
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