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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I've been running Bazzite on my main PC since October (I have a bad habit of tinkering with my Linux installs to death so I opted for immutable so I'm less likely to break it) and of all of the weird and obscure windows software I've installed, all has worked flawlessly including funky model railroad track planning software and some somewhat obscure simulator games. I also have some games from the 90s that haven't worked on modern Windows in years run flawlessly. Heck even Sims via EA's launcher runs flawlessly (if not better because I can minimize it from fullscreen, something it can't do on Windows since the DX11 update)
Literally the only thing I've found that I can't run is anything requiring Ubisoft's launcher. The furthest I got is to about 30% through downloading Anno 1800 before it crashed and refused to run the launcher again. I can't help but suspect they intentionally broke compatibility because that would be very on-brand for them, but you never know. Kinda sad because I wanted to play an Anno game that's new enough to not have gotten a disc release but whatever I have plenty of other games I can play