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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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I'm Done With Windows, Are you? (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by markus99 to c/[email protected]

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[–] TCB13 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

WINE comment, because you can go into the dialog that selects which version of Windows it “emulates”.

Until the emulation fails at some basic Window API feature like window tabs with multiple rows that any Windows version from 95 does just fine. Or... until you try to get MS Office 2016 working and it requires dozens of hacks to end up with something very slow to startup and have graphical glitches... or 2019 also not working, or not being able to install 2021. Or... until you find out that Wine is still unable to just tell applications the screen size fucking up everything that depends on it. Wine is far from perfect and it isn't that good.

As for can’t collaborate, that depends on the industry

Yes, you are lucky you got NX CAD for Linux, because for most people that's not the case. Adobe products are a no go, AutoCAD is a no go, same goes for Multisim / Ultiboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I like your WINE rant :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

WINE doesn't emulate it translates the code so that it can run natively, so any problem you have is because you haven't installed the windows dependencies of the program you are trying to run which you can do trough winetricks. And wine comes with a configuration tool called winecfg, and on there you can edit the window scaling, wine can in fact tell apps to screensize up

[–] TCB13 1 points 10 months ago

In this case is just a poor implementation of basic win32 APIs. Nothing else.