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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A ton of stuff we take for granted will have to be recompiled and you can forget even trying to use Proton to play x86/x64 Windows games without some weird flaky hacks and actual virtualization, since it's only a translation layer.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

okay? so stop making progress because some games might not work? doesn't sound reasonable.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that. I'm saying there's a lot of work to do ahead.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ah, well that's a reasonable take. cool profile pic btw!

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We said the same about ARM a while back

[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You say that, but people already got Stardew Valley to work on RISCV Linux!

Note that it is a link to Reddit. The post is made by the Box64 developer though, that's why I linked it.