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Luke Dashjr | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Linux doesn't actually have any more translation than any other OS
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ABH3PO | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I meant translating windows calls since the games are written for windows
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Luke Dashjr | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Windows translates them just as much
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ABH3PO | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes but windows doesn't have WINE running on top of their games.
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Luke Dashjr | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It has a comparable layer
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ponymontana💜⚡ | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think the difference is that softwares are developed and tested against the windows translation layer. Then open source community try to recreate this layer on linux in a open source way. In the long run it probably will become better and more powerful than the windows one, but it needs time and more problem are expected in the first iterations.
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Luke Dashjr | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The first iterations were in 1993... 3 decades ago
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ponymontana💜⚡ | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 great part of this kind of softwares are rewrited every year. Its a matter of fact that unless 4-5 years ago mainstream games on linux mostly didnt work.