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Microsoft is known for its outstanding backward compatibility. Will Wine take over that role?
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Am I correct in thinking WSL2 needs Hyper-V to be enabled? What's the advantage of it versus running Ubuntu in a VM and using putty?
It's only virtualising the kernel - not the entire OS, so in theory performance should be a lot better.
This would be awesome...I have a bunch of old games that broke when I went to 64-bit Windows. Plus, VMware support for older OSes seems to be getting worse, so that's a less and less viable route.
Have you not tried VirtualBox instead? Never really had many issues with VB. Course it depends on what games too. Windows 10 does have compatability mode as well which can be useful.
Hilarious. Props to author for not trying to give a reasonable looking motivation for this beyond "It would be funny". That's more than enough.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -Richard Feynman (disputed)
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This project is only completed when you can recursively keep doing this forever, without it ever breaking.
We know how it would look like! Here is a nice illustration: https://m.xkcd.com/1764/
It's a shame WSL will be replaced soon with WSL2, which is a mere virtual machine and not native support for Linux binaries.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is running Wine on Linux on Windows. Not running Wine on Windows.
[0] http://dege.freeweb.hu It's an http-only website, don't be alarmed by warnings.
I feel like it would be useful to add "(using WSL)" to the title. I admit I would not have opened the link though, had the title spoiled this part of the story, and the article is funny to read. > Running Wine on Windows has been a fever dream of those responding to the siren call of "we do what we must, because we shouldn't" since at least 2004, when someone tried compiling Wine in Cygwin and trashed the registry of…
WSL is part of Windows 10, so I didn't feel the title was leaving out something important.
I would not expect Wine not to run on WSL. What I learned from the article though is that WSL1 does not run 32 bit binaries (and that someone botched their registry trying to run Wine on Windows back in 2004, which I found funny).