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Hm. So are we all the way there to Win 11 not being installable in fully offline machines, or...? Because niche as that application is, it does sound like the start of a use case for a natively compatible Windows alternative from a third party (say, a FreeWin to go with FreeDOS). I know there are or have been some attempts, but... yeah, long term that seems like it would prompt more focus on something like that.
I suppose it's more likely that compatibility layers in other OSs would get there first and more practically, but still. Maybe it's time to move Windows applications from an ecosystem to a standard.
Linux with wine/proton already works pretty good for running Windows programs and games outside of Windows.
In games its on par except a couple niche situations with rootkits and other anti user solutions afaik.
Not if a game runs with EAC. I'm aware there IS a variant of EAC for Linux, but quite a few games I got and enjoy won't boot up on Linux because they won't implement the EAC variant for it.
A game I play often also has EAC but it worked on linux even on launch day using steam play and proton.
I envy that. Tell BandaiNamco and DIMPS to get with the fuckin times already.