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Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious, could you skip a a DE and window manager and still run full screen graphical applications like games? Run it really like the DOS days when you just changed to the correct directory and ran the executable and then doom launches...?

[–] bitwaba 2 points 5 months ago

Id imagine all games rely on at least the X server running to handle the display.

I know back in the day you could do some cool stuff with framebuffer, but I don't know if you'd get 3d acceleration today even if you installed the drivers, because they probably need a bunch of libraries that are packaged as part of DEs/WMs

If you just want the experience of launching graphical stuff from the CLI, that can be done. You'd still install all the packages for your chosen display server and WM/DE, then you can write a small bash script that launches a desktop session and starts your program, then closes the desktop session after you exit the program.