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by simosx 2252 days ago
On of the first Humble Bundles for Linux games came with a Deb package of the game.

The game is a Linux i386 binary, which means that installing directly on your host will pull in all sorts of i386 libraries. If you host is amd64, it is quite messy.
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loa_in_ 2252 days ago
Looks like Proton does a better job than snap or rpm. I don't get why there is no Linux layer dedicated to translating x32 library calls into x64 calls. The other way around is often impossible I know.
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AnIdiotOnTheNet 2252 days ago
Because historically the Linux userland community has a willful disregard for binary, and often source, backwards compatibility.
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simosx 2252 days ago
Proton is a packaged Wine (Windows emulator) with DXVK (like DirectX for Linux).

Snap packages are based on core images, so if there was interest, they could create a core image that has Wine and DXVK. Then any game would result Wine and DXVK.

RPM is comparable to Deb packages. There is no significant separation of one package from another apart from file permissions.

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