<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sparr" class="u-url mention">@<span>sparr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@thetemerian" class="u-url mention">@<span>thetemerian</span></a></span> please learn to untag the op when you&#39;re doing random debates with people</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@thetemerian" class="u-url mention">@<span>thetemerian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> On the flip side, if we accept that wine isn&#39;t an emulator...<br />What makes xemu an emulator? It&#39;s doing the same things wine does, running x86 code natively while translating sys/API calls.<br />What makes dosbox an emulator?<br />If these are also not emulators, does that mean every xbox or dos game belongs in r/linux?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@thetemerian" class="u-url mention">@<span>thetemerian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> You&#39;re leaning really heavily on &quot;wine is not an emulator&quot; there. While the x86-code-execution part of wine is reasonably not-an-emulator, I strongly disagree when it comes time to start replacing dx function calls with gl/vk-based replacements; those new functions are definitely emulating the unavailable APIs.</p>

<p>Monster Hunter Wilds looks unplayable on Steam Deck but good on Desktop Linux <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/monster-hunter-wilds-looks-unplayable-on-steam-deck-but-good-on-desktop-linux/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/mons</span><span class="invisible">ter-hunter-wilds-looks-unplayable-on-steam-deck-but-good-on-desktop-linux/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MonsterHunterWilds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MonsterHunterWilds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Didn&#39;t that mod get removed?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sparr" class="u-url mention">@<span>sparr</span></a></span> why does it matter how it works? If I can run it without an emulator or dual-boot, then it’s not Windows exclusive</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span><br />what did you do ? 😅</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sparr" class="u-url mention">@<span>sparr</span></a></span> I don&#39;t post anything there</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I generally like your content, but... Are you still making posts about Windows-exclusive games just because they work in WINE/Proton? If so, and if you posted one of those articles to r/linux, I&#39;d categorize that as spam, too.</p>