windows does add a bit of value. It is a set of apis that the oss community can’t just decide to deprecate and think it’s fine because “all the code needs is a recompilation!”.
I have not had a single native linux port %hat is out of support and still works 100%. The most reliable option for me so far is to just run the windows version.
Problem is even when they do, they don’t maintain support. Borderlands 2 has a native port but it hasn’t been updated while the windows version had received new content and patches in the years since.
Developers should still try to optimize Linux performance with native Linux ports.
windows does add a bit of value. It is a set of apis that the oss community can’t just decide to deprecate and think it’s fine because “all the code needs is a recompilation!”.
I have not had a single native linux port %hat is out of support and still works 100%. The most reliable option for me so far is to just run the windows version.
Problem is even when they do, they don’t maintain support. Borderlands 2 has a native port but it hasn’t been updated while the windows version had received new content and patches in the years since.
It’s still happening in some cases. Like Balder’s Gate 3 getting a recent Linux port, for example.