The main hurdle is modern anti cheat. Many old games actually work better on Linux because of fans making dedicated tweaks.

In case you haven’t seen it, Tom7 created a delightful exploration of using an LLM to manipulate word counts.

The article seems to have misunderstood the stats that he provided.

He was showing crashes of a single component of Nvidia drivers while running Warframe. Any crashes within Warframe proper aren’t included.

It still demonstrates that a CPU flaw is causing stability issues in areas that are rock-solid for everyone else.

I feel the need to point out that a float isn’t an integer with a decimal stuck on. A floating point number is called that because the precision on both sides of the decimal point changes depending on the size of the number.

It’s actually stored as an exponent and a value to apply the exponent to. This allows you to express incredibly tiny numbers and incredibly large numbers, but the gaps between representable numbers is inconsistent.

You know how 10 / 3 * 3 is often not 10 because the decimal representation loses the repeating .33? In float, you run into the same issue but in much less predictable places.

A single registry edit to a key that doesn’t exist because they wanted to obscure that it was possible.