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WSL goes brrr (feddit.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/linuxsucks

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 days ago (7 children)

WINE isn't linux exclusive though. It works on MacOS and would pointless on Windows.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

install VMware on Windows
run virtual machine
install Linux in VM
install WINE
run Windows version of VMware
run virtual machine
install Linux in VM
install WINE
run Windows version of VMware ...

[–] chemical_cutthroat 5 points 4 days ago

Through a mirror, darkly.

[–] serenissi 2 points 3 days ago

Does vmware still support binary emulation nowadays?

[–] ThePantser 3 points 4 days ago

Quick someone try and see how deep we can go. I don't wanna do it, no ambition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

this is one of those thoughts you have when you shake in bed trying to desperately awake from a nightmare

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Actually, a long time ago – it was the good old Wine 0.9.8 time – I suggested that one could use Wine on Windows (WoW basically) to get an old application to run. Which worked.

The rational was that it worked on Linux with Wine, but no compat mode on Windows XP(?) was able to run this piece oft software.

It was a wilder time back then.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

WINE
Is
Not
Exclusive

[–] homura1650 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Years ago, my employer had a timecard computer that people would remote desktop into to fill out there timecard every day, since the software wouldn't run on modern windows (I think we were up to windows 10 at the time. One day, the old the old server finally died. For a while we emailed our hours until we found a solution. That solution ended up being a Fedora VM running the payroll software under Wine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Glad to see the creativity there, that's hilarious

[–] Ziglin 2 points 3 days ago

And the BSDs support it too, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it'd be pointless on windows. I have better luck running 16 bit windows programs on wine than I do using modern windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Extremely niche but point taken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isn't MacOS Linux?

[–] accideath 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, but they are somewhat similar. macOS is based on freeBSD which is based on research unix.

Linux is not based on unix but it was written to resemble unix very closely and work similar to it. There’s a lot of intercompatibility but they have different heritages.

[–] Johnmannesca 1 points 3 days ago

*and NetBSD

[–] MashedTech 4 points 3 days ago

No. MacOS has ties closer to BSD.