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I wouldn't be surprised, if wine became a "compatibility layer" embedded into a wsl in Windows at some point

• squarefoot 4y ago
  It is already a compatibility layer to run old windows software that Microsoft no longer supports. I use it for making music, and the number of 20+ years old VST plugins that work exceptionally well is astonishing. The only problem I encountered was some of their installers failing because they reported a negative available disk space, presumably because of a bigger new variable overflowing the older smaller one they use. Running them as a older Windows version didn't work, I suspect the only way to make them run would be to implement a WINE flag to pass the installers smaller variables with that data. Aside that, I'm amazed at how good the compatibility is.
  • seba_dos1 4y ago
    You could just create a smaller filesystem in a file, mount it and export is as a Windows drive in winecfg.
    • squarefoot 4y ago
      I did something similar: made a very small partition on a USB drive and assigned it a drive letter, then tried to install in there. It didn't work because it's the variable that is bigger, not its contents, so whatever value it contains it still overflows the one expected. Short of patching the relevant WINE code (which I don't even know where to start looking for) A XP VM might be the last resort. The software once installed works fine as I experienced by moving to Linux a very old XP install I had on a backup.