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TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

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.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to piracy in Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years

I fucking wonder why. When owning isn’t owning them piracy is totally justified.

We pay for 4K, but we don’t get more than 720p unless we use some proprietary shit hardware and a

Not only that… you pay to get tv content and suddenly they remove it because of licensing or political correctness bullshit.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

Didn’t companies have to set up ethics walls to protect against lawsuits for things like that?

What are you talking about? There’s copyright infringement that when you copy the leaked Windows source code into something like Wine or ReactOS and then there’s reading it to understand what Microsoft did and coming up with an alternative implementation that will provide a compatible API for programs to use. There’s no “gray zone” or ethical BS - it’s either copied or not.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

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?

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

As long as you don’t copy code…

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

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…

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

As if the Windows XP source code wasn’t leaked already…

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

Too bad time isn’t refundable. Free software is only free if you don’t factor in the time you spend making it work.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

Still ReactOS performs better in basic Win32 APIs… makes no sense.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Hetzner Server auction worth it?

It’s true, links already shared by others, the thing is that I’m sure other providers would’ve done the same.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Fedora, Arch, or EndeavourOS?

Fedora, Arch, or EndeavourOS? >>>> Debian + GNOME + Flatpak.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Wine 9.0 is now available

🎉🎉🎉

Yet another major release that fails do support basic Win32 APIs available since Windows 95 properly.

🎉🎉🎉

TCB13 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to linux in Yubikey on Linux?

The difference is that there’s a lot of commercial support when it comes to supporting Linux servers due to many reasons, when it comes to the desktop it simply isn’t there.

If you require “professional” software such as MS Office, Adobe Apps, Autodesk, NI Circuit Design and whatnot Linux isn’t a viable options. The alternatives wont cut it if you require serious collaboration… virtualization, emulation (wine) may work but won’t be nice. Going for Linux kinda adds the same pains of going macOS but 10x. Once you open the virtualization door your productivity suffers greatly, your CPU/RAM requirements are higher and suddenly you’ve to deal with issues in two operating systems instead of just one. And… let’s face it, nothing with GPU acceleration will ever run decently unless big companies start fixing things - GPU passthroughs and getting video back into the main system are a pain and add delays.

To make things worse the Linux desktop development ecosystem is essentially non existent. The success of Windows and macOS is the fact that they provide solid and stable APIs and development tools that “make it easy” to develop for those platforms and Linux is very bad at that. The major pieces of Linux are constantly and ever changing requiring large and frequent re-works of apps. There aren’t distribution “sponsored” IDEs (like Visual Studio or Xcode), userland API documentation, frameworks etc.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to piracy in Does anyone here use CorelDRAW Graphics Suite?

Use those websites.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Yubikey on Linux?

There’s a difference between Linux on the desktop (a pile of shit) and Linux on the server (the way to go). Get over it. It hurts but it’s true.