Wine 9.0 is now available
Wine 9.0 is now available
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 9.0 is now available. This release represents a year of development effort and over...
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Yet another major release that fails do support basic Win32 APIs available since Windows 95 properly.
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Instead of leaving snide comments like this, you can use your head to open up an IDE, implement the features you want, and make a pull request. Keep it to yourself
Oh no, how dare he have higher standards!
Ask for a refund
Too bad time isn't refundable. Free software is only free if you don't factor in the time you spend making it work.
Wow, you're the most entitled user of free software I've met in a while. Just buy a windows license next time.
Well at least I'm not here perpetuating the delusion that desktop Linux desktop is as user-friendly and productive for every use-case as Windows and macOS are. If one lives in a bubble and doesn’t to collaborate with others then native Linux apps might work and might even deliver a decent workflow. Once collaboration with Windows/Mac users is required then it’s game over – the “alternatives” aren’t just up to it.
Windows licenses are cheap and things work out of the box. Software runs fine, all vendors support whatever you’re trying to do and you’re productive from day zero. Sure, there are annoyances from time to time, but they’re way fewer and simpler to deal with than the hoops you’ve to go through to get a minimal and viable/productive Linux desktop experience.
It all comes down to a question of how much time (days? months?) you want to spend fixing things on Linux that simply work out of the box under Windows for a minimal fee. Buy a Windows license and spend the time you would’ve spent dealing with Linux issues doing your actual job and you’ll, most likely, get a better ROI.
Just buy a windows license next time.
Here's the thing, I can get a legit Windows license by various means. I don't need to go into microsoft.com and get it for 300$, a second hand windows machine with an old i5 CPU will sell for 50$ and that includes a valid Windows license. Computers selling on retail stores also include a Windows license, students can get them for free etc. what else?
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Oh yes, I value and like Linux a LOT... just not for desktop as it doesn't deliver as everyone says it does. To be fair I believe that only someone who values Linux as much as I do would be comfortable to criticize what's wrong with it.
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Well I can't spend all my time trying to fix ridiculous issues that would've been fixed by now if people had the balls to look at Windows XP source code...
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Since when is having standards being 'entitled'?
Just because something is free doesn't mean it has to be janky.
So true.
It's a miracle we have wine at all, reverse engineering an entire operating system isn't easy. Be grateful for what we have (which is already enough to run a ton of software really well)
reverse engineering an entire operating system isn’t easy
Have you noticed the the NT / Windows XP source code was leaked years ago. There's isn't much of a need to "reverse engineering", it's just about reading their implementation and providing an alternative implementation that doesn't copy code...
Paragraph «Don't», bullet point number 3: Don't look at any Microsoft source code. https://wiki.winehq.org/Clean_Room_Guidelines
Guess that rule was in place because some people would look at it and proceed to copy it. The rule should be "if you copy code from Microsoft you'll be kicked from the project and the code removed". While I see why this is place and what it protect the project from this is also a very big roadblock to the project's evolution and a clear example of what's wrong with it and why we still have compatibility issues.
That's a lot of words to emphasize you don't understand copyright law
If only there were ways to subvert copyright law...
Lol.
Imagine shooting yourselves in the foot like this.