azertyfun, 1 year ago

The comment you replied to says the opposite. It’s a half-truth, but Linux+WINE does some backwards compatibility better than Windows.

First, Wine doesn’t have an arbitrary limitation against running 16-bit executables AFAIK

Second, there is anecdotal evidence of some older games breaking to graphics driver updates on Windows, but running fine (or even faster!) on Linux thanks to a much more straightforward graphical stack (and the fact that DXVK is dark magic). Even something as simple as fullscreen mode support on old games can be a buggy and flickery pain in the ass, whereas on Linux the same binary will work flawlessly with any decent compositor.