Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
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Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
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Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#2I've heard worse ideas. Not much, but some. An AI-driven Linux, for instance.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#3This is amusing but infeasible in practice because it would need to be behaviorally compatible with Windows, including all bugs along with app compatibility mitigations. Might as well just use Windows at that point.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#4Unironically, yes. It's time that Microsoft taste their own medicine of embrace, extend, and extinguish.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#5This is amusing but infeasible in practice because it would need to be behaviorally compatible with Windows, including all bugs along with app compatibility mitigations. Might as well just use Windows at that point.
you have full control of a Linux system. win32/linux respects your rights that microsoft doesn't. that's the difference.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#6But would you want to run these Win32 software on Linux for daily use? I don't.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#7Building GUI utilities based on VB6 instead of status quo web technologies might actually be more stable and productive.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#8This is amusing but infeasible in practice because it would need to be behaviorally compatible with Windows, including all bugs along with app compatibility mitigations. Might as well just use Windows at that point.
you have full control of a Linux system. win32/linux respects your rights that microsoft doesn't. that's the difference.
That is irrelevant to the feasibility of reimplementing the Win32 API on Linux.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#9Technically it's the only stable macOS ABI, too. The only way to run a legacy 32-bit binary on macOS today is a win32 exe running under Wine.
Re: Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
#10But would you want to run these Win32 software on Linux for daily use? I don't.
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