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I mean couldn't you just run Wine or something?

• usrn 4y ago
  App store says WPF to me which won't work in Wine.
  • jeroenhd 4y ago
    You don't need to use UWP/WPF/whatever it's called these days to get the application into the MS Store. Good ol' Win32 programs can be packaged and distributed through there as well. Microsoft wants you to use their new APIs but they realised they couldn't force developers to do that. With their efforts for a mobile phone operating system dead in the water they've been more accepting of normal applications for a while now.
• dane-pgp 4y ago
  That's a good point, at least for the immediate problems, but I suspect that in the longer term, governments will make their apps check for genuine Windows/macOS installs using remote attestation, like some online games are already doing. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/riot-games-anti-cheat-software-will-require-tpm-secure-boot-on-windows-11/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/riot-games-anti-cheat...
• krono 4y ago
  Roll over and play dead often enough, and eventually the world around you will just assume you don't care and stop bothering to even inform you of the upcoming tricks they'll be requiring you to perform.
• Bedon292 4y ago
  If its only available to get through the Windows App Store, is that even possible to do? I haven't actually used Wine in a very long time, so I don't actually know how that would interact with the App Store. Then there is the question about interacting with the hardware for reading the card as well.