> Fifth, oh, did you want to run a game? Not just a hello world? Then you need to deal with DirectX, audio (hello PulseAudio, my old friend), input devices (gamepads, joysticks), etc. It’s a lot of work!
These last paragraphs just made me realise how grateful I am to people who work on these open source projects without expecting any compensation or even praise for their work.
It has happened once or twice that I tried running something in Wine and it just wouldn't work which made me a little annoyed.
But reading how complex and difficult it is to make such things happen I am surprised the amount of effort it takes to even make Notepad.exe work!
These last paragraphs just made me realise how grateful I am to people who work on these open source projects without expecting any compensation or even praise for their work.
It has happened once or twice that I tried running something in Wine and it just wouldn't work which made me a little annoyed.
But reading how complex and difficult it is to make such things happen I am surprised the amount of effort it takes to even make Notepad.exe work!