Post #1857522
2026-04-24 06:48 UTC
Because jailing a container is even harder than jailing an application. “But a container is already jailed” you’ll say - I don’t trust any jail that I can’t choose & configure myself.
Fair enough.
How about: document the requirements for the execution environment (in industry this is called an interface definition document), based on which the gaming community can then generate their own container configs if they like, but no one has to run stuff in a container.
Also a good solution but you will end up in a container anyway once the requirements will become too old to be satisfied on a current OS.
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@raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 12:57
Also a good solution but you will end up in a container anyway once the requirements will become too old to be satisfied on a current OS. That might be - but depending on the platform, that container is trivial or not necessary at all (e.g. wine on Linux still runs 16 bit executables with just a config file). Also, until then, I can continue to run the game without worry. E.g. Unreal Tournament 99 still worked out of the box (last I tested) on Debian 12 - haven’t tried it yet on Debian 13.