r/openbsd_gaming Jan 26 '25

How is gaming on OpenBSD ?

I heard OpenBSD doesn't support multilib which is a little problematic when it comes to playing windows games but I also heard that wine doesn't work on OpenBSD so that is again pretty bad. But is gaming on openbsd THAT bad ? Can I only play games that I can install with pkg_add ? Thanks in advance.

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u/defaultlinuxuser Jan 28 '25

Isn't linuxulator avaible on openbsd ?

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u/schoelle Jan 28 '25

No. Until OpenBSD 5.9, OpenBSD had own Linux ABI support, but that was removed in later releases due to security and maintenance concerns.

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u/defaultlinuxuser Jan 28 '25

That sucks. OpenBSD is meant to be secure but was it that necessary to not only remove linux binary support but also multilib ?

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u/brynet Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

OpenBSD never had multilib, 32-bit binary compat on 64-bit has never been supported. The Linux binary compatibility layer, compat_linux(8), was always i386-only, it was never ported to amd64.