Delilah (She/Her)

My boy! Look how they massecured my boy!

Sionara, lean windows 7 start menu

Also the reason I even mentioned Mesa is because there is a working Mesa port to Windows already that does software rendering and an experimental RADV port.

There’s a fucking wot? WAT? That’s fascinating.

Mesa would fall under “things like pulseaudio and kwin that are entrenched at lower levels of the OS and realistically can’t be ported to microsofts walled garden”. SC controller is a userspace driver, which realistically should be portable between operating systems but maybe they’re doing something silly like making kernel calls directly? The KDE apps only prove my point and the wine thing… Okay I’ve experienced the wine thing. For an operating system that to this day will not let you name a file or user “CON” in case it breaks a powershell script that’s older than I am its impressive how bad their backwards compatibility chokes so hard on games.

The thing about open source is it can usually be rebuilt for anything, and most linux apps are open source. The singular exception I’ve ever come across was a PS4 emulator of all things. Name a linux app and I can practically promise there’s a windows version, baring things like pulseaudio and kwin that are entrenched at lower levels of the OS and realistically can’t be ported to microsofts walled garden.

Did you know you can build pacman (the archlinux package manager) for windows? Its used for distributing certain switch homebrew and cross compiler toolchains across all platforms.