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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago (16 children)

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

[–] homura1650 6 points 4 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 4 days ago

Glad to see the creativity there, that's hilarious

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