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voidr on Aug 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

> Yes you can on the android emulator. The biggest issue is compu arch in that case.

I can also download VirtualBox and run all Windows programs, that would mean that all Windows apps are Linux apps?

> Yes you can for the most part

You can't statically link glibc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/3392

glibc can break stuff: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/08/valve-dev-understandab...

I had binaries break because the newer version if openssl was put under a slightly different name.

WorldMaker on Aug 4, 2023 [–]

> I can also download VirtualBox and run all Windows programs, that would mean that all Windows apps are Linux apps?

WINE is not even an emulator, or so its name says.

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