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Porting? Who talked about porting? Why do you (and they) voluntarily ignore 20+ years of Wine? 99% of the (few) Windows programs I still routinely use work per

Porting? Who talked about porting? Why do you (and they) voluntarily ignore 20+ years of Wine? 99% of the (few) Windows programs I still routinely use work perfectly fine under Wine. I can even run my old Windows 3.1 (16 bit) stuff on 64 bit Ubuntu, which I couldn't run on Windows 10. Heck when I was a Linux newbie, I was amazed to find Windows programs that didn't support Windows XP links were nicely following Ext symlinks! Office doesn't play nice on Wine? Seriously, if Valve can get stuff working on Proton that requires DRM, DirectX etc. it doesn't look like fixing existing issues to make Office work 100% under Wine is beyond reach for Microsoft. Heck, we're talking about the same corporation capable of giving us the WSL! > Adobe too. And Autodesk too.

vetinari 6y ago
Recently, I was using Mikrotik Winbox for the first time under Ubuntu. I was shocked how easy it was to make it run (apt install wine-stable, wine winbox.exe) and how well it worked.
TheRealDunkirk 6y ago
> Porting? Who talked about porting? Why do you (and they) voluntarily ignore 20+ years of Wine? Indeed. I was happily using Codeweaver's Crossover product to run Office 2000 (on RedHat 6.2 with Ximian Desktop, IIC) before Microsoft realized this loophole produced a flawless experience, and then changed the binaries to purposely frustrate this solution going forward. Nothing every worked quite right after that. Eventually, Evolution had a usable Exchange integration, and OpenOffice wasn't completely useless, so I simply stopped caring.