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The lifecycle is at its worst at this very moment and is about 10 years (the last moment you could have made a GTK 2 app before 3 released). The price of backw

The lifecycle is at its worst at this very moment and is about 10 years (the last moment you could have made a GTK 2 app before 3 released). The price of backwards compatibility is keeping backward design. Microsoft stated a few times that they couldn't keep the exact interfaces of Win32 without leaving security problems inherent in the mis-design of original interfaces. I have no idea if they intentionally broke the interfaces, but Wine is sometimes more compatible with old win32 than windows.

badsectoracula 6y ago
In my experience Wine is more compatible when it comes to older games (especially those abusing the APIs), but when it comes to older (and newer) GUI applications it has a lot of issues. And for older games there are often alternatives in Windows (e.g. dgVoodoo2 which reimplements older DirectX and Glide versions under Direct3D 11 and i think nowadays 12) that provide even better compatibility and features.