Re: encapsulating directory operations

On Fri, 23 May 2025 09:26:47 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote:

I've made multiple attempts to install WINE. Only one of them,
years ago, worked. Yes, with enough work, I could likely have
got it to work.

Or you could pay money to someone with the smarts to do it properly.

Look at Valve’s Steam Deck, for example: it uses WINE (actually Proton,
which is built on top of WINE) to run a large enough chunk of Windows-
specific games to be a successful commercial product.

SteamOS is actually built on Arch Linux, of all things -- you know the
geek meme “by the way, I use Arch”? Yes, *that* Arch. Are the Steam Deck
buyers geeks? Of course not -- they’re the complete opposite, just
ordinary folk who want to run their favourite games, nothing more. They
want an appliance that you can just switch on and go, without having to
fiddle about.

Not something you can really say about Windows, is it ... ?