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| ▲ | raddan a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| WINE has been reimplementing the Win32 ABI (not API) for decades. It already works pretty well; development has been driven by both volunteers and commercial developers (CodeWeavers) for a long time. |
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| ▲ | aggling a day ago | parent [-] | | There are many programs that still do not work properly in WINE, even though it has been developed for decades. This in itself demonstrates the infeasibility of reimplementing Win32 as a stable interface on par with Windows. The result after all this effort is still patchy and incomplete. | | |
| ▲ | toast0 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | There are many programs that do not work properly in Windows 11, so using Windows to run Windows programs doesn't work either. |
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| ▲ | tapoxi a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's already been done, though. Wine has been around for 30 years and has excellent compatibility at this point. |
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| ▲ | aggling a day ago | parent [-] | | 5341 of the 16491 applications listed in the Wine AppDB have a compatibility rating of "garbage". This is not excellent compatibility. | | |
| ▲ | dleslie 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | How many of those entries have been tested with recent versions of wine or proton? Seems a poor metric. Better to consider is the Proton verified count, which has been rocketing upwards. https://www.protondb.com/ | |
| ▲ | nulbyte 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I would hazard a guess that most of those apps are garbage on Windows, too. | |
| ▲ | winnnd 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Relative to (64-bit) windows 11, it might be. |
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