Quoting: Cyba.CowboyHow is 'Surviving Mars' not supported?

The reason is given on the page, something along the lines of "Valve is improving Steam Deck support of the game" - whatever that actually means. But for sure it's gonna be Playable of Verified later.

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Quoting: PublicNuisance

Your tone is damaging your legitimate cause.

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I wonder what I would want to play with 15 fps though.
Not even a point and click, right?

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Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI know Windows has a reputation for slowing down over time—primarily due to its dated filesystem—but I wonder if this is still true. Windows as of late seems to be more well-optimized for older hardware.

It's generally seemed to me that the primary reason for the slowdown of Windows over time is registry cruft.

It's long time ago that I had the feeling that Windows would get slower over time. Didn't ever measure, but if it still is, it's at least not hindering me. (Doing work, software development, on Windows 10.)

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Quoting: Shmerldon't engage in discussion posting flame comments that are simply false :)

Show me where I'm flaming. Cite.

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Quoting: ShmerlGood, then what are you even arguing about? If discussion doesn't work for you, don't engage in discussion :)

It work's as soon as you're going to read, understand and answer my argument. WINE cannot be a Windows emulator because it doesn't intent to emulate Windows, which is way more than an API/ABI.

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Quoting: ShmerlEmulation can mean emulating software. Those who don't like this or don't get it can move along. Arguing with them is a complete waste of time.

This is still nothing anybody here has been saying around here. That's why the discussion doesn't work. Arguing would need to deal with the actual arguments given, which you're not doing today.

Again, for your reading pleasure:

Windows consists of a lot of things, including but absolutely not limited to...
[ ] API
[ ] ABI
[ ] Scheduler
[ ] Memory manager
[ ] Kernel
[ ] File handling
[ ] Drivers
[ ] User interface
[ ] ... you name it.

Most of this is not - at all - handled by WINE, and therefore, WINE is not a Windows emulator, and will never be.
(You see? Nothing about hardware, nothing about there would be no possibility to emulate software.)

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Quoting: LinasIt's much more like what Mono is to .NET, or like Pipewire to Pulseaudio, or like FNA to XNA, or DXVK to DirectX, etc. They implement the same API, which allows to use them interchangeably without modifying the clients. At least in theory you could write a native Linux application against Wine API and there would be no emulation involved.

But API itself is not quite enough to trick actual Windows applications.

To deviate even further: I found news group postings from '93 where they call it "WINDOWS API emulator" - but isn't it technically the ABI, not the API, they're... whatevertheyredoingwithit?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: EikeYou've got the whole thread at your disposal to cite all those. Nobody here was defining it this way,

And I'm not talking about people here, but about those who were originally annoyed at Wine calling itself an emulator, causing it to be rebranded as "not an emulator". So not sure what your point is exactly. None of these people are here I presume.

You've been explicitly talking about the present:

Quoting: ShmerlWine emulates Windows, so it is an emulator of it. But some can't understand the term except in the context of emulating hardware, so they probably insisted that "Wine is not an emulator [of hardware]".

Windows consists of a lot of things, including but absolutely not limited to...
[ ] API
[ ] ABI
[ ] Scheduler
[ ] Memory manager
[ ] Kernel
[ ] File handling
[ ] Drivers
[ ] User interface
[ ] ... you name it.

Most of this is not - at all - handled by WINE, and therefore, WINE is not a Windows emulator, and will never be.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: EikeNobody said anything about hardware except you.

Not true. All those who got hung up on "Wine is not an emulator" were busy defining emulator as something that has to emulate CPU architecture and such. While the meaning of the word emulate never had to be limited to what they wanted.

You've got the whole thread at your disposal to cite all those. Nobody here was defining it this way, and you ignored - and are still ignoring - all arguments that actually were given.

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