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> Linux has always been lackluster on the Desktop - fragmented, lacking features, lacking important applications, etc - and MacOS is attached to overpriced medi
by adev_ 3y ago
> Linux has always been lackluster on the Desktop - fragmented, lacking features, lacking important applications, etc - and MacOS is attached to overpriced mediocrity.
Honestly, I would agree with that 10 years ago but not anymore.
The we-yfication of clients applications and Electron (ironically) did a lot of good here.
These are numbers pulled out of my Hat, but I would say out of my experience that around:
- 90% of proprietary applications around nowadays are just WebApp or Electron Apps that will just run fine under Linux
- 5-7% are old Win32 apps that will just run like a charm under Wine (ironically, sometimes better than under the last windows version)
- 3-5% are the problematic ones. They are often Microsoft applications (Office365, Teams) or Oracle applications.
The most problematic one I do find currently is Office 365 that never runs properly under Wine (probably on purpose).
Even the game situation improved tremendously with the arrival of Proton.
- rbanffy 3y ago> - 5-7% are old Win32 apps that will just run like a charm under Wine (ironically, sometimes better than under the last windows version) And that's totally expected. Unlike WSL1, where a terrible OS pretends to be a good one, a vastly superior OS should have no issue pretending to be an inferior one. Perhaps disgust, but Wine is not sentient just yet.
- water9 3y agoThis argument isn’t necessarily true, and is one of the reasons why the Xbox 360 couldn’t support backwards compatibility for the original Xbox . The hardware required, for the overhead of emulation was larger than the gap between the Xbox 360 and the original Xbox performance. Eventually they had to recompile from 86 to power PC
- rbanffy 3y agoI was half joking. My personal experience with both WSL1 and Cygwin, which offer a Linux-like varnish on top of a Windows environment, is that mapping Linux filesystem semantics on top of NTFS result in a sizeable performance hit. Not enough to make them unusable, of course, but enough perceive. When Wine does the same, mapping NTFS semantics on top of ext4, there is no such hit - on the contrary, if feels faster.
- water9 3y agoYea why is windows so opposed to even reading alternative formats like EXT4? It annoys the heck out of me when multi-billion dollar companies can't provide basic features of compatibility because someone is trying to make a buck on licensing. That's such a myopic approach as opposed to giving it away for free in order to get a more valuable commodity - users.