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Easy to use? Sure. Simple? No way.
https://support.codeweavers.com/en_US/2-getting-started/2-in... Seems easy to me
https://www.christopherspenn.com/2021/08/simple-is-not-easy/
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You could say the same about container images for server apps. (Packaging is hard.)
Packaging is “hard” but mobile and app stores do it. They do it by having standards in the OS, partial containerization, and above all: applications are not installed “on” the OS. They are self contained. They are also jailed and interact via APIs that grant them permissions or allow them to do things by proxy. This doesn’t just help with security but also with modularity. There is no such thing as an “installer” rea…
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> wondering what really needed improved Maybe not much? A few months ago, I ran out of power (my mistake, I use full screen apps to avoid the distraction, so I didn't realize I was unplugged) After plugging in and restarting Linux then the ancient version of Word I was using, I got a pleasant surprise: the "autosaved" version of the document I was editing, with nothing lost! As for llm, Excel 2010 may not have been m…
Autosave has been part of Excel for ages. I had it enabled back in the early 1990s with the version that was distributed alongside Word 6 as part of Office 4.3 (I don't remember the Excel version number).
Word is similar.
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The concept of containers for Windows applications running in WINE is called "bottles." https://support.codeweavers.com/en_US/2-getting-started/2-in... I believe it started with Cedega, but I could be wrong. That's where I first recall encountering it.
I really like the idea of bottles. I wish there was a way to bundle that up into a distro and make it invisible to the user so I could setup my friends and family with it.
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The most recent .NET Framework still keeps 1.1 assemblies for compatibility. And yep, .NET sucked and eventually got semi-abandoned.
What are you talking about??? .NET never got abandoned! If anything its hit a very high bar now. Its one of the top frameworks to build an app across platforms.
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I really like the idea of bottles. I wish there was a way to bundle that up into a distro and make it invisible to the user so I could setup my friends and family with it.
Could call it "transparent bottles".
> Thesis: We should create a distro of Linux that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine. On Debian you're one package away: sudo apt install wine-binfmt Otherwise you're still pretty close: echo 'none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc defaults 0 0' >> /etc/fstab mount -a echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/bin/wine:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
> I can pull down a 20 year old exe and still run it today on Windows. Try doing the same with a Linux binary that's just a year old. There's no guarantee that it will be able to run based off some update that has happened IMHO, you just compare two different things. Traditional method of installing apps on Windows is packing all dynamic dependencies with it. While on linux dynamic dependencies are shared between app…
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Question, from an application developer's perspective: What is the implication in regards to cross-platform Vulkan applications? I.e., my 3D applications all use Vulkan, and they compile and just work on both Windows, and Ubuntu. Does this mean that on other or older distros, they might not work?
I don’t think the support depends on distros much, I think the main variable is hardware. If you have a desktop PC bought in the last ~5 years the support should be OK, for the hardware older than that the support is not guaranteed. GeForce GT 730 (launched in 2014) doesn’t support Vulkan, Intel only supports Vulkan on Windows starting from Skylake launched in 2015. Then there’re quality issues. If you search interne…