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Yeah, Windows backwards compatibility has been getting worse, but consider the following: You are given a binary for a GUI application, compiled in 2001. You d
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Yeah, Windows backwards compatibility has been getting worse, but consider the following:
You are given a binary for a GUI application, compiled in 2001. You drop the binary on your system and run it. If it is a Windows application, it has a much better chance of working fine on both Windows and Linux than it does on Linux alone if it is a Linux application!
- michaelmrose 6y agoWhat about if you have the code?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoThen you still have to get the development environment right, a task so simple it totally isn't a popular usecase for containers (/s), and fix any incompatibilities in the APIs since 2001 and now. In other words: it's at least as big a pain in the ass as getting the old binary working.