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by jcd000 876 days ago
That's true, but the overall trend is clear. Wine is pretty good these days. For old windows software it is sometimes better than the latest windows versions.
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Well, It seems I am unlucky: hardly anything works, when it works it is often shabby, and something properly working does not last long.

I am already dealing with the hell of ABI compatibility of ELF because of glibc and gcc devs, dunno if I want to add this hell.

> Well, It seems I am unlucky: hardly anything works, when it works it is often shabby, and something properly working does not last long.

For me, it's amazing. I'm running a windows app on a arm64, non-windows machine.

> I am already dealing with the hell of ABI compatibility of ELF because of glibc and gcc devs, dunno if I want to add this hell.

ABI of glibc is pretty good, you sure don't do something very wrong?

Well, compatibility with games is literaly hell.

And about ELF on elf/linux, I am more than sure, this is another hell because of those guys (I would fire all of them).

Who knows, some day it might be good enough that microsoft ports it to work directly on windows or via WSL2 for that purpose.