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What do you think of loss32?
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I wonder if this has any practical benefits over running a Windows OS in a VM...
edit: piping, or easier collaboration between, Win32 and Linux programs could be an example. The creator mentions creative and gaming applications.
My mom and my wife's mom have computers soon to be out of support. Windows.
They need something stable, but also that does all their normal stuff. I'd love something that updated cleanly like enterprise Linux, but gave them the win7 interface they had for so long (they complain about this one now).
So that's your market. Yeah, a wine box would work well, and Nobara is nearly the winning candidate. But even it requires a lot of finagling for windows people, and I'd love something completely seamless so it's easier to support.
I would say not running Windows is itself a practical benefit. I would also say the four freedoms constitute a very practical benefit (even if the software you're running on top of the OS is proprietary).