translation is kind of native though. It is almost like pırting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool
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lustyargonian@lemm.ee 4 months ago
SteamDeck, emulate everything.*
- Proton technically isn’t emulation, but it’s pretty crazy that the device basically doesn’t have anything natively built for it, everything is translated emulated. It took that much effort to break Microsoft’s PC gaming monopoly.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
lustyargonian@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yeah it’s pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.
FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sadly that’s mostly true, but that may have more to do with devs lack of experience with Linux in general. Often they would have to outsource the port to Aspyr or another team.
Persi@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Regardless of what the website says, waydroid isn’t an emulator by any meaningful definition.
It’s a container that runs on top of your regular linux kernel (with some very cool desktop integration features), java/kotlin applications run as natively as they’d run on your phone.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
That’s interesting. I didn’t know that. I tried working with Waydroid once on Bazzite on an older desktop of mine and didn’t get terribly far with it.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
The Deck is what have me the confidence to move to Linux on desktop. I wouldn’t have switched if not for Valve.