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it's time to ditch Windows for linux

• tabulatouch 5y ago
  I am always surprised by the lack of a proper "Linux Wine" OS, binary compatible with Windows, but with linux under the hood..
  • vageli 5y ago
    These days there is Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
    • dkersten 5y ago
      Which is a subsystem of windows to run linux, not a subsystem consisting of windows to run on linux. Ie that doesn't solve the problem of "I don't want to run Windows but want Windows software", but rather it solves the opposite problem of "I'm on Windows and want to run Linux software".
      • vageli 5y ago
        Ah, I see I misunderstood the comment to which I replied.
  • bserge 5y ago
    Maybe if WINE ditched their "clean room" directive...
    • mschuster91 5y ago
      They can't, it would open them up for so much legal trouble. Just look at the entire SCO saga.
  • sempron64 5y ago
    I think the core problem is that wine needs to be tweaked and adjusted for the applications which are running, and often running certain software requires strange things with winetricks. It’s not stable enough for a distro
  • prionassembly 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
• AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  If only I could, but my experiences with Linux Desktop continue to be even more frustrating and painful than Windows despite Microsoft's apparent continued efforts to destroy desktop computing as a concept. Worse yet, the Linux Desktop community has demonstrated not only an inability to remedy said frustrations, but also a complete lack of desire. I have some issues with choices made in Haiku, but overall it has a clearly superior understanding of desktop and personal computing and it would be great if it could become a reasonable alternative for me within the next decade.