Wine has saved my classic gaming expeirience. I was about to spend hundreds to get my old windows xp computer new hard drives and adapters for the IDE, etc.
Then i screwed around with wine and installed my first game and it plays better than windows. Linux for life!
Still one of my favourite WTF moments for Windows.
Whats in the System32 folder? 64 bit dlls. Whats in SysWOW64? 32 bit dlls.
Yes I know that WOW64 stands for WindowsOnWindows64 but its still hilariously misleading.
I have had situations where I've explained this multiple times to people while helping them manually install the DXVK Async fork into their wine prefix and they still get it backwards.
Everything about windows is misleading. There are windows settings that require doing some sort of an windows inception where you open one settings to go deeper into an older version of the same settings to go deeper into an even older version of the same settings until you reach something that was designed for Windows 98 and actually works. With every newer windows version the settings become only more and more convoluted. Thank god I've switched to Linux as my daily driver.
The problem of graphical settings. Needs more work, quickly gets confusing, ages badly. A fine .cfg from 1980 is still a fine .cfg now. It's place in the FS hierarchy might have changed but that's not a concern of the .cfg.
There's really no excuse, proper project management would have replaced the UI and verified the new version included all the old functionality, organized well together with whatever new functionality they added. I think they were trying to keep old hats happy with the changes by letting them keep their old version, but it's better to just rip the band-aid off if you're gonna change it, now it's a mess for everyone.
Ah, Microsoft-specific, i think it's mostly because of their 10+ UI frameworks.
I mean, could you trust a company that created a Linux container subsystem for Windows and named it Windows Subsystem for Linux to name things correctly?
Windows has subsystems. They're called Windows Subsystems. This one's for Linux. However you slice it, the initialism has to have WS in it.
People do not realize that Windows has, and has had, other subsystems. So the name seems dumb.
When you realize that as far back as 1993 there was:
then Subsystem for Linux does not seems as crazy.
Having “for Windows” at the end sounds natural if you only have one but putting saying “Windows subsystem for” makes more sense when you realize there are a bunch of them.
Regardless, the decision was made 30 years ago and not recently as people assume.
The obvious choice is to rename Wine to Linux Subsystem for Windows
"Linux on Windows Subsystem" or "Windows Subsystem: Linux" or "Lin4Win" anything would be better
It's not the 'Linux on' subsystem, it's the 'Linux on Windows' subsystem, so it'd have to be Linux on Windows Windows Subsystem, which would be silly. It can't have a colon in it as some command-line tools take a subsystem as an argument, and traditionally, Windows command-line tools have used colons the same way Unix has used equals, i.e. to separate an argument name from its value, and parsing that gets harder when you're expecting colons in the value, too.
Stahp, my games already perform better on linux with wine then they did on windows at this rate…
Actually please keep going !!!
Are you tired of winning yet
My steak is too juicy and my lobster too buttery 😭
Are you tired of ~~winning~~ wineing yet
Sigh, you missed the obvious pun: would you like some cheese with your wine?
Win11
BOOOO
Wine11
:D
Sir, they hit the second penguin!
Does wine 11 support copilot?
lol
You’ll need to wait for Wine 12 Copilot Plus edition featuring Clippy.
Still waiting on the improvements to BACKSTREET_BOYS to get merged.
So the * in N*SYNC stood for a T all this time?
Why do you think people got so into T posing?
It's a wildcard, but T seems obvious to me.
Context pls?
Skimmed through the text. What does it have to do with the topic here - WINE?
I saw NTSYNC and was obligated to reply with the complementary 90s boy band.
Broke (cause you have to pay): Win11
Woke: Wine11
cost is one of my least concerns with win11 nowadays
Pirating windows is so easy and it improves privacy there is 0 reason not to.
Thats like saying getting herpes is cheap so you might as well get it
I daily drive a linux distro I 100% agree that windows is much worse than windows. I was saying that pirating windows is better than paying for it. Still doesn't come close to trumping linux though.
Already downloaded and built it on Slackware.
Was able to get Fallout 3 running on it without mods or community patches. Working fairly well, as long as its run windowed fullscreen I can tab out and back without it crashing.
I read that as Windows 11 at first and I was confused to see that Microsoft actually updated the kernel code.
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