Originally posted by elanthis
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Most of this, for me, is contingent upon Wine being perfectly supportive of Direct X 9/10/11/etc and having acceptable performance (within hardware limits) for all games, but the same goes for Office and other desktop applications. This would also depend upon my distribution of choice being able to accept native applications outside of its package management scheme.
Yes, you can download and install .deb/.rpm archives, but it puts the responsibility on the developer's shoulders to provide archives for all architectures/distributions. I guess it's part of the reason I like C#/Java as much as I do, since it negates a large amount of that issue. The fat binaries for *nix that were mentioned last week (from Ryan Gordon/icculus) are another nice addition where JIT isn't an option.
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