TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2.

One more reason to switch to Linux

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    Wine does a Lotta shit. I know I have an NTFS drive running on my debian-family machine.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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        3 months ago

        Basically, they like to drink wine.

        No. I’m kidding. WINE stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator, and it allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux machine. It’s far from perfect, but it can be a lifesaver when switching from Windows to Linux. What user melpomenesclevage is trying to say, is that you can use WINE to significantly blunt the blow / daily usability learning curve when switching, to keep some of your familiar applications as is.

        Edit: here’s their site https://www.winehq.org/ the also explain it much better than I.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          How you explained it helped a lot. So it basically is a windows emulator but isn’t for legal reasons? Lol

          • @[email protected]
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            103 months ago

            Haha no, it’s technically not an emulator. Emulation means having a whole fake CPU that runs your software. Wine doesn’t do that, instead it makes the windows exe run in Linux and provides an API so the calls your windows program makes run natively.

            Tldr emulation is slow, wine makes your programs run natively.

            I switched to Linux for gaming a year ago and I have been blown away by how good it is.

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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            3 months ago

            Not really an emulator, though the end result is similar. WINE translates the instructions sent between the OS and software to languages each other understands. It’s like a Babel Fish for Windows programs and the Linux OS.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        You can run a lot of windows apps on Linux even if they don’t say they’re compatible, with a tool called WINE

        Also, it matters less if youre a little tipsy.

    • TwinTusks
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      33 months ago

      Sadly, wine does nothing for my work application.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Then wait until windows breaks it or it technically functions trapped in an unusable shell, and lose everything.