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by CoastalCoder 943 days ago
Do you have particular applications on mind?
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AnimalMuppet 943 days ago
There are a huge number of business-specific Windows-only apps out there, because for so long Windows (and DOS before it) was what everyone ran on. So when you hired some college CS student for three months to create that custom app for your business workflow, it ran on Windows. And it's still there running the business, and so you can't change because that would mean replacing the app. Source code? What's that?
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CoastalCoder 943 days ago
How is Wine these days for such apps?

IIRC, there used to be a problem with .Net and/or Silverlight apps in Wine. But I could be 100% remembering wrong.

(I also have no idea if/how Wine supports apps that use ActiveDirectory.)

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acomjean 943 days ago
Anything Adobe falls into that camp saddly..

Luckly fewer and fewer bits of software remain.

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