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I can feel it in the air. This is going to take off just like how wine and proton took off. We are going to go through another "Linux gaming" rush all over again and this shit is going to be fun. Let's go!!!
Wine was first released in 1993. I hope our children are there to see the take off.
Yeah but I imagine porting a JVM and an API using open source code is much easier than reversing the Windows API.
I don't think you should compare the two progresses. Technology is much better now. So, things will definitely move much faster than they did back in the 90s.
There is slightly more openness to androids layers than the win32 layers as well.
I still remember symlinking to binaries in my windows system folder back in the late 90s to be able to run office 95 under Linux. (The MSFT system files permitted some things to work properly that just didn't with the wine provided libraries back then)
Just ignore the existence of proton, despite it being mentioned by name.
I definitely hope so, so far it's looking promising!
So the native gnu userspace will become the third most used desktop linux runtime :P