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In the current state of technology, wine doesn’t make sense anymore. 20-ish years ago was impossible to have an interchangeable application between two OS, wit
by postit 7y ago
In the current state of technology, wine doesn’t make sense anymore.
20-ish years ago was impossible to have an interchangeable application between two OS, without a huge effort on porting and adaptations trade off. Now we have the web applications running in a handful of different systems. We’re also watching the people theorizing supporting webassembly binaries directly in the kernel. If you don’t want to run a webapp you have virtualization to rescue you.
My last straw with Wine was when I bought navicat for Linux and they shipped a wine wrapped windows app. Really, some tech should just retire.
- tombert 7y agoFirst off, there are plenty of older Windows applications that currently exist that aren't going to get a port to a modern web app any time soon that work perfectly fine with Wine; even Microsoft doesn't support running Windows 3.1 programs anymore. You could argue that nothing from that era is worth preserving, but are you saying that applications like DOSBox, Snes9X, or UAE aren't useful? Second, while I definitely support the push to web technology, I'd still rather have something on Linux or Mac than nothing, and often times Wine is the only realistic way of doing that. I agree it's a little annoying when you buy a "Linux" app, and it's just a wine wrapper, but at the same time, at least it's officially supported and works. I didn't get upset with SEGA when I bought the Sega Genesis collection and it used emulation instead of native ports.