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Wine is nearly as old as linux. First released in 1993. I had some awkward conversations with my parents as a teenage nerd looking into "winehq". They didn't
by cogman10 3y ago
Wine is nearly as old as linux. First released in 1993.
I had some awkward conversations with my parents as a teenage nerd looking into "winehq". They didn't believe me that it had nothing to do with alcohol.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoYour parent being concerned about you browsing something about wine? You're definitely not be French/European. Here our parents give us wine :) American?
- cogman10 3y agomormon family.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThanks, Mormons are some of the most nicest and chill Americans I've met in Europe. Had no idea alcohol is taboo.
- astrange 3y agoThey're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything, so those might've been CIA agents.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything I never understood why you should mass deny security clearances to people who like to "party".
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoThey don't want people who might have done something embarrassing in their past, because foreign adversaries might try to blackmail them with that.
- stouset 3y agoOn the flip side, those are the exact people who often wouldn’t be embarrassed or ashamed of that kind of behavior. I’ve done a lot of things, and I’d openly admit just about all of it if anyone asked. On the other hand if you do find a Mormon who took some liberties in an earlier time in their life…
- astrange 3y agoAs well as admitting everything, it's easier to get a government job if you never did drugs, seeing as they're illegal.
- boffinAudio 3y agoThey're good at being CIA agents because they are supple and compliant and the CIA has tools to make that compliance into nationalistic zealotry that rivals the capabilities of most religions, having refined it through operations such as paperclip, etc..
- astrange 3y agoThey were already nationalistic, that's another part of being Mormons.
- saghm 3y agoEven today, Blizzard games tend to run pretty easily on Wine. I always attributed it to them using a fairly old tech stack, but maybe it's the reverse and Wine development has just continued to go above and beyond for those games.
- kcb 3y agoI know WoW is aware that's it's running in Wine. There are some setting greyed out in game with a message of not compatible when running in Wine.
- neurocline 3y agoIt was mostly on purpose, that Blizzard games worked well in Wine. We even fixed a few things in our code from time to time that accidentally made Wine emulation hard.
- mananaysiempre 3y agoFor me a more interesting way of putting it is that Wine is nearly as old as Windows NT whose usermode architecture it’s copying—first shipped 1993 as well! Even if development began around 1989 that and preliminary versions of various kinds were available from about 1991.