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WSL goes brrr (feddit.org)
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[-] techwithjake@lemm.ee 59 points 5 days ago

WINE isn't linux exclusive though. It works on MacOS and would pointless on Windows.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
  • install VMware on Windows
  • run virtual machine
  • install Linux in VM
  • install WINE
  • run Windows version of VMware
  • run virtual machine
  • install Linux in VM
  • install WINE
  • run Windows version of VMware ...
[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Through a mirror, darkly.

[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Does vmware still support binary emulation nowadays?

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Quick someone try and see how deep we can go. I don't wanna do it, no ambition.

[-] _____@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

this is one of those thoughts you have when you shake in bed trying to desperately awake from a nightmare

[-] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago

Actually, a long time ago – it was the good old Wine 0.9.8 time – I suggested that one could use Wine on Windows (WoW basically) to get an old application to run. Which worked.

The rational was that it worked on Linux with Wine, but no compat mode on Windows XP(?) was able to run this piece oft software.

It was a wilder time back then.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago

WINE
Is
Not
Exclusive

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Years ago, my employer had a timecard computer that people would remote desktop into to fill out there timecard every day, since the software wouldn't run on modern windows (I think we were up to windows 10 at the time. One day, the old the old server finally died. For a while we emailed our hours until we found a solution. That solution ended up being a Fedora VM running the payroll software under Wine.

[-] helloworld55@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Glad to see the creativity there, that's hilarious

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

And the BSDs support it too, right?

[-] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I don't think it'd be pointless on windows. I have better luck running 16 bit windows programs on wine than I do using modern windows.

[-] techwithjake@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Extremely niche but point taken.

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Isn't MacOS Linux?

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

No, but they are somewhat similar. macOS is based on freeBSD which is based on research unix.

Linux is not based on unix but it was written to resemble unix very closely and work similar to it. There’s a lot of intercompatibility but they have different heritages.

[-] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

*and NetBSD

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

No. MacOS has ties closer to BSD.

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