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  • Their store page says it runs some sort of Linux OS.

    Is it possible to open a terminal and a file manager? Could you install Wine through the terminal (something like sudo apt install wine or sudo pacman -S wine) and then run the .exe with Wine? The latter could be done with the terminal (cd path/to/windows/game/files/; wine 'The Game.exe'), but if there’s a file manager you could probably select the .exe and run it with Wine.

    Sorry to give such broad instructions, I’m not sure what the Anbernic runs, exactly.












  • Mainly memory safety; split (which is also used for other programs like sort) had a memory heap overflow issue last year to name one. The GNU Coreutils are well tested and very well written, the entire suite of programs has a CVE only once every few years from what I can see, but they do exist and most of those would be solved with a memory and type safe language.

    That said, Rust also handles parallelism and concurrency much better than C ever could, though most of these programs don’t really benefit from that or not much since they already handled this quite well, especially for C programs.