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Yes, and it also creates a more active community. I played some old games with wine about 12 years ago. Like you said about WineD3D, it was not a good experienc
by ammo1662 2y ago
Yes, and it also creates a more active community. I played some old games with wine about 12 years ago. Like you said about WineD3D, it was not a good experience, just usable.
And wine does not implement all the APIs. If you do not submit requests or report bugs, the community will not fix it. So the source code contains a lot of "fixme" and stubs. Some APIs are implemented without the support of some flags.
In this case an active and sustainable community is very helpful. Not only for the business of Valve and CodeWeavers, but also the whole "running Windows apps on Linux" thing.
- ACS_Solver 2y agoHow relevant is the part about running Windows applications through Wine now? I'm under the impression it's less relevant than it used to be, due to web apps now having replaced a lot of native programs, and many native programs are just disguised webapps, like VS Code.
- ammo1662 2y agoFor example, you cannot get a copy of Windows 95/98/ME legally right now. So if a customer is asking you for a copy of your very old software product, maybe a copy running on wine is a good option. It is known that some systems in the world are still using floppy now. In that kind of case, wine with Linux can be seen as an alternative way of using that old illegal copies of Windows. For modern applications, you do not need to do that. Even though it cannot run on Linux natively, you can always find some alternatives.
- account42 2y ago> For example, you cannot get a copy of Windows 95/98/ME legally right now. The first sale doctrine and other countries' equivalent laws still applies.