On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:33:00 -0500
John Morris <jmorris@???> wrote:

Snipping the Pol, Para and not mentioning Cap.

>Or like people who still run Windows after
> decades of failure and breathtaking security flaws, but they just know
> the next release is going to be stable and secure.

It isn't just Microsoft, but the hardware manufacturers as well. First
you have to wait for them to correct 'bugs', then their culling
of support for 'legacy' hardware and software, which is swift and
deadly.

I only maintain a boxen running MS windows for the 'Recreational
Software', aka Games.

Unfortunately, despite my stance of buying a copy of every game
that interested me and ran on Linux, the offerings have dried
up*. Even the ability to run those games has disappeared.

While Linux has a lot of basic card and simple board games, offerings
are missing in a lot of types.

So, I'm left with running MS Windows games or and the intermittent
suitability of Wine, PlayOnLinux, Codeweavers, Qemu etc.

So if anyone wants to share their secrets to being able to run MS
Win based games on Linux, I'm interested.


I do know that the DOS game Warlords works well in Dosbox, but then
various people have written a Linux version called LordsAWar. IME the
dos version is a bit hard to play on a dual screen system as it sits
firmly in the middle.

* I think Minecraft was the last to offer a Linux version,but there is
also the Linux based Minetest as a development base.