On: Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

[flaunf221]

> What happened was Wine/Proton and FEX, with a lot of monetary input from Valve.

So it took decades to understand that things aren't working and then investment from multi-billion company to finally start getting anywhere.

Meanwhile on Windows you can play today, could play 10 years ago, could 20 years ago. That should answer how it's still in business. It just works.

[meekins → flaunf221]

Although if you want to play the same game you played 20 years ago today, running it on Wine is your best bet to get it running.

[samudrijan → flaunf221]

That’s due to xcel and word and corporate IT being built on AD.