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[–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What will happen if they release the next Half-Life as a Linux only build? There is no Wine in Windows. Is WSL even able to run games?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Wsl is just a VM and it can run graphical apps. I’ve never used it for games, but I’ve ran some intensive simulations through it that used my GPU and it worked fine so probably.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Wine is no longer a vm, they switched approaches a couple years back and now perform translations from windows specific apis and commands into the nearest available Linux version. Slowly refining the process like a fine wine to reduce the differences. That's also why wine developers work closely with the dxvk devs (direct x 7-12 translated into vulkan regardless of platform) and other translation layer devs to be able to use their tools rather than duplicate the work.

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