• juipeltje@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    12 hours ago

    Yeah, i know these things now, but back then i just didn’t do any research and had no clue. Although i do remember trying wine, but i couldn’t get any games to work. I’m not sure if that was me being incompetent, or wine not being as good back then, probably a combination of both lol. This was like back in 2010 or something.

    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      9 hours ago

      WINE was awful back then. It’s still not great. Bottles makes it bearable and of course Proton has entirely changed the game for gaming.

    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      11 hours ago

      I’ve been into Linux on and off since around 2006… it was always cool, but kind of a pain in the ass to use. Until sometime around 2015-2020 or so we hit an inflection point and now linux is ready for primetime in a way it wasn’t before. Like when I first installed linux in 2006 it was like “yep… this sure is volunteer-made software (derogatory).” But it’s much better than it was.

    • Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Well, that’s fair.

      As for Wine, I only managed to make Warcraft III to work, but not Minecraft or any other game. Wine needed so much tweaking back then.

      Around the same time also.