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by oneshtein 248 days ago
Android is Linux. It has loads of users and loads of games.
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tsimionescu 248 days ago
Don't conflate mobile free to play games (i.e. gambling simulators with a thin veneer) with actual games. I wouldn't be surprised if there were fewer actual games playable on Android than the full catalog for Sony PSP. Mobile free to play games are exclusively a way to prey on people's addictions in the hopes of finding enough "whales".
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Frenchgeek 248 days ago
The Android version of the game Fractal no longer work (So I use the Windows version). And the only way to play the Steam version of Dungeon Defenders on Linux is to use the Windows version instead of the native one.

Even if Windows ever did disappear as an OS, it would remain as a backwards compatibility layer apparently...

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privacyking 248 days ago
It has a stable interface on top of Linux, which desktop linux does not have.
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oneshtein 248 days ago
Android is not backward compatible. Many old apps are crashing or refuse to work on newer Androids.
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izacus 248 days ago
Most of them aren't though. Significantly more old games work on Android than they do on Linux desktop distros.

This is why everyone is dropping Linux support and targeting Proton instead.

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tredre3 247 days ago
The only time I've seen old Android games stop working is when they use native 32bit libraries and most Android devices are now unable to run them.

Other than that Android backwards compatibility has been quite good, much better than Desktop Linux anyway!

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