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"Wine is the Linux ABI."
by notwokeno 4y ago
"Wine is the Linux ABI."
- pjmlp 4y agoOS/2 says hello.
- tigeroil 4y agoIndeed. I hate to say it because I love Linux but Wine has genuinely been by far the most stable ABI on Linux.
- notwokeno 4y agoI don't hate it. The GNU user space is built around a paradigm of source sharing and using the shared source to build a very coherent and pleasant OS. Having some kind of clear separation between that and closed software makes things more pleasant IMO.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago"Coherent" is not a word often used to describe the Linux Desktop experience. How many different ways do I have to copy and paste again? Which ones are valid in which contexts?
- notwokeno 4y agoThe OS is coherent (arguably more so than most) even if the GUIs aren't necisarily. A big part of that is because most of the useful apps are shell/VTE apps. Even still it's not like other OS vendors are much better at building good UIs: How many frameworks has MS gone through just to say "screw it, write web apps?" Even Apple can't get everyone onboard with Cocoa.
- artificial 4y agoWouldn't this be more applicable to BSDs more so than Linux? One is a kernel and userland made by the same team and packaged together and the other is a kernel with a bunch of different philosophies packaged around it.
- notwokeno 4y agoI don't want to be pedantic and write "GNU/Linux distributions" every time. People know what you mean when you write "Linux." And the result of the distribution model is something similar to the BSDs (when you pull the projects apart I'd argue they're really not so different socially.)