Kind of ironic that the Linux community's efforts to get around that lockin have been so successful that people in the community are now talking unironically about tools to bypass the lockin of DirectX as ways to preserve Linux games . . .

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I presume it doesn't meet the Open Source Definition:
https://opensource.org/osd [External Link]

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I guess it happens to work, for programs that are also Windows programs, but it's kind of a sad statement about the position of Linux that this should be considered a reasonable solution. Compared to designing a whole imitation of Windows to . . . preserve Linux programs, except the ones that are only Linux programs . . . shouldn't it be comparatively easy to just make some older-Linux snapshots in something like Flatpaks? I mean, Linux development was all done in public and archived like crazy, all the old stuff is available. And as a preservation tool for Linux programs, it would have the advantage that it would work for Linux programs.

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Huh. Is there a reason they didn't make these things run Xbox stuff? How hard would that have been? I mean, if they're going to brand them all Xbox . . .

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I dunno about more closed in. We think of Japan like it's all Tokyo, but there's a lot of rural and even a quite surprising amount of wilderness in Japan.

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I was actually wondering about the "effectively invulnerable" issue. If I had to guess, I'd be suspecting they'll just mostly ignore Wolverine's healing factor. But it would be interesting if you instead did things like leave him basically unkillable, but put time pressure in the missions, or other kinds of pressure like if you do it wrong people you're trying to save will die. And, from time to time, something special has an attack that could vaporize you or something.

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SteamOS accounts for roughly a third of Linux users on Steam, making it the largest single distribution. The rest is highly fragmented, which is why "it runs here but not there" is such a common story.

So what you do is you say "We are targeting the Steam Linux Runtime (version whatever). We will support any Linux users using that. Anyone else can run at their own risk."
I don't see why this is complicated.

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Hmmm . . . So, I wonder what happens if you have a Steam Deck, download it there, then copy it over to your Linux desktop and play it there? Would it complain if you didn't play offline?

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Y'know, I'm starting to think it's not better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

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Well, I was on the fence, but the trailers says "Now, with 10% more bonk!"
Now that's a deal!

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