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Agreed, could have worded it better. Now that Wine is good enough to run most of Windows software and backed by Valve via its Proton initiative.
by phoe-krk 7y ago
Agreed, could have worded it better. Now that Wine is good enough to run most of Windows software and backed by Valve via its Proton initiative.
- ralphie02 7y agoHasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Furthermore, how does being backed by Valve actually be of any significant value? I've heard of this argument for a couple of years now and I'm still not convinced (not that I follow Wine development that closely).
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago> Hasn't Wine been good enough for at least 10+ years? Depends on what you mean by "good enough". Wine is an incredible project that has achieved amazing successes, but it still falls short in a lot of ways.
- ralphie02 7y agoThis is exactly what I'm getting at. I personally don't use Wine but I've encountered people online in the last 10+ years that use the argument that it's "good enough" for people to fully switch to Linux. Realistically, I don't think Wine actually convinced more than a handful of users to abandon Windows