WINE isn't linux exclusive though. It works on MacOS and would pointless on Windows.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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- 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 ...
Through a mirror, darkly.
this is one of those thoughts you have when you shake in bed trying to desperately awake from a nightmare
Quick someone try and see how deep we can go. I don't wanna do it, no ambition.
Does vmware still support binary emulation nowadays?
WINE
Is
Not
Exclusive
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.
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.
Glad to see the creativity there, that's hilarious
And the BSDs support it too, right?
Isn't MacOS Linux?
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.
*and NetBSD
No. MacOS has ties closer to BSD.
I make all kinds of shitty apps that I never bother to port to windows.
I’ve ran WINE on Windows before for legacy compatibility reasons and just to see how it worked.
I don’t know if this is the project I used, but it sounds similar: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
uhm the entire kde and gnome app ecosystem?
some did get ported to Windows but its not the primary target and these ports usually have significant issues.
That's another thing that should work fine on BSD.
The only Linux exclusive software I can think of is a bunch of drivers.
They are Sporting mesa RADV to windows, só that's changing lol
Tons of Qt/KDE apps work just fine on windows, macOS, *BSD, and even Haiku OS.
I hear the petition to get KMail ported to Windows just hit a gazillion signatures.
Dolphin has a windows version
softwares
1 software
This is how I know someone doesn't work in software.
it also misuses the meme. Top right is meant to ask Andy Samberg to name several examples, to which he is to respond with the name of a taxonomy or hierarchy that contains multiple examples of such.
I work with plenty of developers who say "softwares" because English is not our first language
Parted
And gparted
The zoo of mediocre audio subsystems Linux has might be exclusive to Linux.
i3 baby!
You can get Wine on mac
Ummm, systemd?
yes, it runs in a linux vm, which wsl2 is. It's not running on windows. The systemd part runs inside the vm.
Yea, my thoughts exactly. Virtualisation doesn’t count because it opens an entirely different can of worms.
Man made horrors beyond my comprehension
I was gonna say SuperTuxKart but it's available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android per their site.
Wine runs on Windows as is a good way to emulate some Windows 98 apps that no longer work in Windows 11 I’ve been told.
Actually no, wine is pretty handy within wsl on windows to restrict windows apps to certain folders on your system
Wouldn't it be easier to run the program as an user with restricted access...?
Not if you want to just pop it up with a single command line and close it as quickly
You could just write a small script for that? There must be something like su
Su isn't on windows, and does the exact opposite to restricting filesystem access to a specific subset
su allows you to swap to another user in shell, not just make yourself root.
'runas' looks like it'd do just the job
runas can do that, yes. Now how are you planning yo also create that user in the same command line? And to dispose of it automatically when the process ends?
runas can do that, yes. But it won't make you a virtual file system, or give you a nat firewall.
One use case for this is the backblaze backup utility. It's kinda stupid in that it has an all-or-nothing approach to backups.
Putting it in a container restricts it in a much easier and reliable way than running it with a special user account.
You had me right up till the end.....nice work.
Some of the only things I could think of would be desktop environments on their own, but I don't have a clue whether they work on wsl considering I gave up on it real quick after flowblade didn't work on it due to inexperience.
Now I wanna know if you can compile wine on windows. Maybe through something like Cygwin.