If only I could actually run 100% of Windows software (excluding Windows specific of course), I'd jump the ship in an instant, warts and all.
Linux is... A mess from an individual standpoint. (Don't believe me? Use 4k multi screen with scaling). But I'd happily accept it if I could show Windows 11+ a big f'u, with all their'smarts' and 'ais'.
But it's a pipe dream.
Wine wouldn't be needed if Microsoft wrote their apps in a cross platform language and cross compiled to other operating systems.
Alas that would impact their shareholder value so everybody else has to spend thousands if not millions of man hours trying to get their shit working on linux.
Such a waste of time and resources.
But why should they? I actually don't get your line of reasoning. They are building their ecosystem with limited incentive to expand to Linux.
"We" are interested in this. They've build a business model based on lock in, which is frankly quite understandable. If anything, I'd say that (current) Microsoft is pretty open about everything; as compared to the other major player.
>But why should they?
Because they care about open source and want everybody to be able to run their software.
>Microsoft is pretty open about everything; as compared to the other major player.
What a bizarre thing to say. What are they open about actually? How does their open source volume compare to facebook, twitter, google, or even yahoo for that matter?
MS is pathetic when it comes to openness. Even github is not open source FFS.
> What a bizarre thing to say. What are they open about actually? How does their open source volume compare to facebook, twitter, google, or even yahoo for that matter?
Largest non-google chromium contributor; fifth largest contributor to Linux; open source powershell, .net core, vscodium to [name a few](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_open_source).
We are far away from the Ballmer era, you know?
> Because they care about open source and want everybody to be able to run their software.
One does not equal the other. They are the company, and it's obvious that they have a stake in open source. This is not a bad thing; because Open Source and Microsoft are mutually beneficent from that arrangement.
>Largest non-google chromium contributor; fifth largest contributor to Linux; open source powershell, .net core, vscodium to name a few.
Largest how? Lines of code? I guarantee you that you are lying your ass off when you say Microsoft is the fifth largest contributor to linux.
I am guessing you are also lying about the chromium contributions as well.
>We are far away from the Ballmer era, you know?
Not when it comes to dishonesty and sleazy behavior apparently.
>They are the company, and it's obvious that they have a stake in open source.
Not much.
>Open Source and Microsoft are mutually beneficent from that arrangement.
If this was true they would publish the sources for their apps so it's clearly not true.
What fact is that? Do you mean your lie that Microsoft is the fifth largest contributor of code to linux? That wasn't a fact. That was a lying sack of shit spewing bullshit and linking to wikipedia as if it proves anything.
As someone using linux full-time at 4k multi-screen i'd say it's less of a mess then it used too, but i use the same scaling on all screens.
Scaling per screen would require Wayland which while mostly usable still has show stoppers like no magnifier and requires you to have a well supported gpu.
Got back to Windows because of multi-screen, too. Qt and GTK both would have a bunch of quirks and undefined behaviors.
I hate Windows, but at least it's consistent in its problems.
Great write-up. It never occurred to me that most of the Windows functions could just return whatever value the EXE was interpreting as success. It makes sense, now that I think about it, that at least some of the MSVC functions won't have any analogous actions that can be taken in a Linux environment.
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