[Tmmrn]

Ah, it's this "why not wine" article.

> I truly do feel that emulation of some sort is a proper technical direction for gaming on Linux. It is obviously pragmatic in the range of possible support, but it shouldn’t have the technical stigma that it does.

That might be a valid point if wine's windows support was like FreeBSD's linux compatibility layer. But it isn't... It is a massive pile of API translation layers and libraries reverse engineered from a huge closed source proprietary moving target. It's a hacky workaround and I couldn't believe he is actually saying reverse engineering windows is a "proper direction" that "shouldn't have a technical stigma".

[scott_karana]

Actually, I had the feeling that he's specifically recommending not to use Wine.

> A good shim layer should have far less impact on performance than the variability in driver quality.

As he describes in great length, most of the characteristics of games are either identical, or similar. It sounds like he's advocating more of a simple JIT translator than an OS-level compatibility layer.