That last one I’m mildly worried by Apple’s recent Intel/Rosetta 2 sunsetting announcements but that’s still a few years away so things can change. Doubt will ever go native though - it’s Zenimax, who are owned by Microsoft so they don’t have much of an incentive.
I would not be surprised if there's a way to run the Windows version via Proton/Crossover/Wine/QEMU/etc.
On 14 Jun 2025, Theo wrote
(in article <SVb*[email protected]>):
I would not be surprised if there's a way to run the Windows version via Proton/Crossover/Wine/QEMU/etc.
I’ll have to look into it at some point, but am a couple of years away from that I think. It definitely runs under Proton as my gaming PC is Linux-based and I run essentially everything from Steam using Proton and zero concerns. There are some games that deliberately shut themselves out of it, and those are the ones with Windows kernel anti-cheat stuff. I don’t play those kind of games anyway though (mostly FPS) so I’ve never had a hassle.
That said - all those are Intel-to-Intel, just API translating. Not sure about Intel with no Roseeta available, I know Parallels can do it so maybe via that one day.
Theo <[email protected]> wrote:
Ian McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
On 14 Jun 2025, Theo wrote
(in article <SVb*[email protected]>):
I would not be surprised if there's a way to run the Windows version via >>>> Proton/Crossover/Wine/QEMU/etc.
I'll have to look into it at some point, but am a couple of years away from >>> that I think. It definitely runs under Proton as my gaming PC is Linux-based
and I run essentially everything from Steam using Proton and zero concerns. >>> There are some games that deliberately shut themselves out of it, and those >>> are the ones with Windows kernel anti-cheat stuff. I don't play those kind >>> of games anyway though (mostly FPS) so I've never had a hassle.
That said - all those are Intel-to-Intel, just API translating. Not sure >>> about Intel with no Roseeta available, I know Parallels can do it so maybe >>> via that one day.
QEMU can run Intel binaries on Arm, doing JIT of the instructions.
Performance worse than Rosetta but ok.
I tried running AMD64 Ubuntu with UTM and it was unusable. Took about 5 minutes to find the shutdown button and activate it.
Theo <[email protected]> wrote:
Ian McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
On 14 Jun 2025, Theo wrote
(in article <SVb*[email protected]>):
I would not be surprised if there's a way to run the Windows version via >>> Proton/Crossover/Wine/QEMU/etc.
I’ll have to look into it at some point, but am a couple of years away from
that I think. It definitely runs under Proton as my gaming PC is Linux-based
and I run essentially everything from Steam using Proton and zero concerns.
There are some games that deliberately shut themselves out of it, and those
are the ones with Windows kernel anti-cheat stuff. I don’t play those kind
of games anyway though (mostly FPS) so I’ve never had a hassle.
That said - all those are Intel-to-Intel, just API translating. Not sure >> about Intel with no Roseeta available, I know Parallels can do it so maybe >> via that one day.
QEMU can run Intel binaries on Arm, doing JIT of the instructions. Performance worse than Rosetta but ok.
I tried running AMD64 Ubuntu with UTM and it was unusable. Took about 5 minutes to find the shutdown button and activate it.
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