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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago

Through a mirror, darkly.

[–] ThePantser 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] serenissi 2 points 1 month ago

Does vmware still support binary emulation nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

WINE
Is
Not
Exclusive

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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.

[–] homura1650 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Glad to see the creativity there, that's hilarious

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Extremely niche but point taken.

[–] Ziglin 2 points 1 month ago

And the BSDs support it too, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] accideath 10 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

*and NetBSD

[–] MashedTech 4 points 1 month ago

No. MacOS has ties closer to BSD.

[–] stupidcasey 21 points 1 month ago

I make all kinds of shitty apps that I never bother to port to windows.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I’ve ran WINE on Windows before for legacy compatibility reasons and just to see how it worked.

I don’t know if this is the project I used, but it sounds similar: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

uhm the entire kde and gnome app ecosystem?
some did get ported to Windows but its not the primary target and these ports usually have significant issues.

[–] Ziglin 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's another thing that should work fine on BSD.

The only Linux exclusive software I can think of is a bunch of drivers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They are Sporting mesa RADV to windows, só that's changing lol

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

Tons of Qt/KDE apps work just fine on windows, macOS, *BSD, and even Haiku OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I hear the petition to get KMail ported to Windows just hit a gazillion signatures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Dolphin has a windows version

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

softwares

1 software

This is how I know someone doesn't work in software.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

it also misuses the meme. Top right is meant to ask Andy Samberg to name several examples, to which he is to respond with the name of a taxonomy or hierarchy that contains multiple examples of such.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I work with plenty of developers who say "softwares" because English is not our first language

[–] Johnmannesca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kelargo 5 points 1 month ago

And gparted

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The zoo of mediocre audio subsystems Linux has might be exclusive to Linux.

[–] DerArzt 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You can get Wine on mac

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I was gonna say SuperTuxKart but it's available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android per their site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Wine runs on Windows as is a good way to emulate some Windows 98 apps that no longer work in Windows 11 I’ve been told.

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

Actually no, wine is pretty handy within wsl on windows to restrict windows apps to certain folders on your system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Some of the only things I could think of would be desktop environments on their own, but I don't have a clue whether they work on wsl considering I gave up on it real quick after flowblade didn't work on it due to inexperience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Now I wanna know if you can compile wine on windows. Maybe through something like Cygwin.